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Extracts from the Audio Memoirs of Major LWA Lyons - Training - Part One - 1939-40icon for Story with photo

Then he came to the last bed were Bobby Neal slept. It's an old army trick, in India they were always...

Extracts from the Audio Memoirs of Major LWA Lyons - Training - Part Two - 1940icon for Story with photo

On Christmas Eve we were lined up for some sort of drill when a sergeant came over and spoke to Romero and...

Extracts from the Audio Memoirs of Major LWA Lyons - Training - Part Three - 1940icon for Story with photo

We went to barracks in Aldershot to join the other 700 Cadets who were to join the Indian Army... We were...

Extract from the Audio Memoirs of Major LWA Lyons - The Desert - Part One - 1942icon for Story with photo

There was an Italian girl called Anna, or something like that, and some officers from our division made a...

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Extracts from the Audio Memoirs of Major LWA Lyons - The Desert - Part Two - 1943icon for Story with photo

They were to be the 56th London Division. They were then in Baghdad as part of PI Force. He had an Italian...

Extracts from the Audio Memoirs of Major LWA Lyons — Italy — Part One - 1943icon for Story with photo

It was wintertime in Potenza, and all these Italian girls were wearing their usual winter gear, which...

Extracts from the Audio Memoirs of Major LWA Lyons - Italy - Part Two - 1944icon for Story with photo

Of course the Germans had seen the mules and… it was so unfortunate. And as he jammed his bakes on a...

Extracts from the Audio Memoirs of Major LWA Lyons - Italy - Part Three - 1944

An RMC Captain appeared and told everyone, that in the event of an emergency those with at least one leg...

Extracts from the Audio Memoirs of Major LWA Lyons - India - Recruiting - 1942icon for Story with photo

Amongst these were bandits, the Dacoits, who lived by swooping down from the hills to raid villages. One of...

Extracts from the Audio Memoirs of Major LWA Lyons - Iraq - 1946icon for Story with photo

Then I saw the Germans going back to their hut, and it seemed so sad that they were going to have such...

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