The Philadelphian by Joseph Patrick Gray

The Philadelphian (Introduction and Part One)

I am and always will be very proud of him: what he went through, the theatres of war, Malta, Iraq, Egypt,...

The Philadelphian (Part Two)

In 1932, my dad remarried because he had to have someone to care for us, as I had got another sister aged...

The Philadelphian (Part Three).

With the cash that I had, I hired a taxi and took the three lasses to a dance hall in Lissan, then...

The Philadelphian (Part Four)

My own battalion, the Royal Irish Fusiliers, got off Malta a few weeks after we left, they also came to...

The Philadelphian (Part Five)

The Bren gunner, a sergeant and myself were sent out to find out where Jerry might be. Jerry rounded us up...

The Philadelphian (Part Six)

The trains must get through, unfortunately, to provide the German army with the supplies they needed to...

The Philadelphian (Part Seven)

Mary and I managed to get away a few times, we went to Malta and Holland a couple of times, and to...