A Tale From Dads Army ( Stapleford Platoon in Cambridgeshire)

This is a story my father Charles Beavis used to tell about the local Home Guard of which he was a member. Dad was a soldier in the 1920's, and being to old for active service at the outbreak of the WW2, he joined the Home Guard.
The tale he used to tell was about night patrol a section of the platoon were on. It was a bright windy, moonlit night,with German air craft in the vicinity,when a light was seen flashing from a house on the side of a hill known as The Gog Magog Hills.
Not wanting to be seen, in case the light was somebody signalling to the German aircraft,the section leader decided that the approach to the house should be done by crawling across a field,through a hedge,and across the garden of the house. This took according to dad about forty five minutes, in which time the light kept flashing. On reaching the house the light was found to be window fanlight which had been left unfastened and was being blown by the wind
and was catching the moon light.

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