More storiesWhen travelling by train we had to keep our fingers crossed that the class finished no later than 9... I went to a Christmas Eve dance with Dorothy at the local church hall. Whilst I was on leave from... A voyage up the Red Sea took us to Port Tewfik, where we all disembarked, were given a cup of tea and... Two 5.5” guns of the Free French were about 400 yards north of our position, and nearby was a... To boil the water, we used a 'Benghazi' - a flimsy 5-gallon petrol tin cut in half, with wire... When we alighted, an English boy aged 12 or 13 asked if we were staying in Cairo for a few days, to... Then one day, a rather well-spoken and well-educated but unassuming lad waited until the sergeant almost... A Spandau machine gun would fire at us from the German side, but the bullets would fall short by about 15... There were cliffs about thirty or forty feet high in a horseshoe formation around the German unit and... Most of the canteens at Larkhill were crowded, so Roy Rix, who was a Gunner, generally borrowed my... He asked his driver to continue but this was impossible as he also had a young girl draped across him and a... Later on, a well-dressed Dutchman presented himself at our base and offered to show us the locations of... < Previous page | You are on page 1 of 1 | Next page >   | 1 |   |