And so on Sunday May 6 1951 at 930AM we embarked upon the Dunera and at 3 pm sailed for home. Compared to our departure from Liverpool as the Devonshire made its way down the Mersey on a dark and dirty January night with no ceremony this was different ; pipes and drums from a Scottish regiment bade us farewell and it was a bright sunny day. [Read more…]
Writing about my return to the Royal Artillery Depot Woolwich is difficult as I have no distinct memories, and nothing to jog my memory. But after some thought I can perhaps provide an account of what occurred. [Read more…]
Having been dismissed from Woolwich, Ian Styles and I made our way in FSMO with our kitbags to Hendon on the other side of London. [Read more…]
As this memoir started with a picture, it also ends with one. For although I can try to encapsulate the sum of my experience in this last chapter, a look at me here in the last days of my service in Hong Kong could perhaps tell you all that I hope to share. [Read more…]
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