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Tugford a small villageicon for Story with photo

We had a lad Albert Ducket to stay with us, Land army girls were working on the farm, The Tugford wood was...

Road Signsicon for Story with photo

On my travels in Germany as a dispatch rider used to go along a road with signs fastened to trees at the...

Ambulance Control Caricon for Story with photo

This photo is of one of our stops in Germany, it was a small farm. The HQ officers where billeted in the...

Marching for Thanksgiving Serviceicon for Story with photo

At the end of the war in Germany there was thanksgiving and the company started to practice for marching to...

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Photo Dispatch Ridersicon for Story with photo

The photo was taken at the same location as Ambulance Control Car and is of Three of dispatch riders,...

Photo Barber at workicon for Story with photo

Ginger Turner among other things did the hair cutting for the company and Tom Brewer usually drove him when...

Photo Mantion in the Ardennesicon for Story with photo

When we were in the Ardennes the weather was not very good and the roads all covered with snow and ice, so...

Photo Pontoon bridge.icon for Story with photo

Photo Pontoon bridge. This is a photo of a pontoon bridge being erected over the Rhine, it is the first...

Ambulance at workicon for Story with photo

When I left the company after the war in Europe had finished one of the lads said that someone had taken...

Photo D.U.KW..Workingicon for Story with photo

Photo D.U.KW.. This is aphoto of lads working with D.U.K.W s The Amphibious vehicles that became very handy...

Photo How KIt should be laid outicon for Story with photo

On occasions when things were quiet there would be a morning kit check and this is how the kit should be...

Dont Mess with the kiticon for Story with photo

One of the lads a corporal got the idea of enhancing his webbing by getting concrete dust off the floor of...

Places I have stayed at during my army travelsicon for Story with photo

I joined the army April 1944 and these are the places That I stayed at sometimes 6 weeks and it varied...

Photo of ww2 Tommy Handleyicon for Story with photo

A photo of some of the lads I met at a camp at Toulon in France in October 1945 whilst awaiting a...

Photo of ww2 no1 Tommy Handleyicon for Story with photo

Photo of the company cooks I am afraid I cannot remember their names but I recall the sergeant cook was a...

Photo of ww2 no 2 Tommy Handleyicon for Story with photo

Another photo of a D.U. K. W. working in the flooded area of Germany or could it be Holland when the Air...

Photo of ww2 no3 Tommy Handley.icon for Story with photo

Photo of ww2 no3 Tommy Handley. These are the Officers of 111 30 Corp I cant remember all of their names...

Photo of ww2 no 4 Tommy Handleyicon for Story with photo

This is -- Dunkley officers mess cook with a rare feast for the officers....

Photo of ww2 no 5 Tommy Handleyicon for Story with photo

This is Bert haveing a leasure time at Mardof camp in Germany a sort of leave rest camp....

Photo of ww2 no6 Tommy handley.icon for Story with photo

The workshop was in a sort of underground factory where the Germans used to make airaplanes untill it was...

Ph0to of ww2 no7 Tommy Handleyicon for Story with photo

This a German barracks that 111 mac took over as one of our stops....

Photo of ww2 no8 Tommy Handleyicon for Story with photo

Bailey bridge across Rhine Germany 1945....

Photo of ww2 no9 Tommy Handleyicon for Story with photo

I am afraid I cant say where this was taken,but it could Holland when the sea wall was bombed and part of...

Photo of ww2 no 10 Tommy Handleyicon for Story with photo

One of the border control I forget wich....

Photo of ww2 no 11 Tommy Handleyicon for Story with photo

The bridge that in the days of my early d/r dutiesI used quite a lot....

Photo of ww2 no 12 Tommy Handleyicon for Story with photo

The first Autoban that I knew existed....

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