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Two of my uncles, both doctors, had served in RAMC Field Ambulances in the First World War and I remembered...
Eventually this military pied piper shoots out through the back door and we follow, a hideous gaggle,...
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The RSM did not materialise, so a two-seater staff car was commandeered to drive me through a blinding snow...
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Once on the move it was our aim to make for Tunis as quickly as possible When we reached the small town...
We had just decided to return to the camp when an angry drone, growing in volume, came from the sea,...
It seemed that we had come hundreds of miles simply to arrange dates between United States flying officers...
Account of the original landing in Sicily by J.B.Blockley. "When I was attached to the Seaforth...
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X would not take the girl, but that we would try to think out some solution We left the tunnel for fresh...
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Scary moments included the machine gunning on our way up and through Centuripe, to Adrano, where we passed...
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It seemed barely half an hour before we were cutting across the Straits of Messina , flying down the east...
So I planned to fill one day hitch-hiking to the splendid Greek theatre at Syracuse, wearing battledress...
He was in great pain, but responded well to tea, a cigarette and the usual injections of morphine and ATS....
The patients on acute medical were interesting and I gleaned some knowledge of treatment for Primary...
He was so badly shaken when dug out that he had to be sent down , and will probably be in England...
That evening we made for Cassino, left our lorries after dark and marched about two miles while our barrage...
" During the period of holding the line at Cassino, the mule track ADS and the Inferno Gully MDS, where...
Escaping from the crowd I made my way to the Opera House to book a ticket for the afternoon performance of...
Admittedly, both bivvy and kennel must house four legs, but a dog can stride in manfully, while the human...
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We lay up at a small village from which, half an hour later, we were recalled and spent the rest of the...
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