Alex Dickson - Memoirs

Chapter 2: Testing Security

So I walked the whole way around, there was a deep moat with very dirty water all around the place, I...

Chapter 3: Colonel Montgomery

When I got there I was put into an ordinary infantry platoon on coast defences, my position was a big heavy...

Chapter 4: Arrested as an Irish Spy

Well I arranged it and suggested to him that from were we where in Chigwell if we dropped one man with a...

Chapter 5: Hassled by a Guards Division SNCO

To make matters worse from the first day I arrived, I arrived on Sunday and on Monday morning when I awoke...

Chapter 6: My trip to Burma cut short

On his first day round he came to my bed the sheet was pulled back, the nursing sister Captain with also...

Chapter 7: From Wales to Egypt

There are no NCOs or officers with them, so I have arranged a special train from Prestatyn to Liverpool...

Chapter 9: A new system for a POW camp

After a few months at that camp I was transferred to another camp again near Geneva on the Canal Zone and...

Chapter 10: A wedding and some funerals

Then I had to arrange to do the same thing with the District Commissioner in Jaffa, Palestine, so I had to...

Chapter 11: Journey's End

I was good at studying, I finished up actually as Director of Lyle and Kinahan in charge of their wine and...