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Copies of a series of brief articles (14pp) written for the Shakleford Village Hall newsletter in 2011, charting his journey as a Signals Officer who, after finishing a Signal's Instructors' Course in Cairo, was given command of No 9 Vehicle Company Convoy and ordered to travel 1500 miles from Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt, to Tripoli, Libya (March 1943), with details of the convoy, the men, the vehicles, the route via Buq Buq, Tobruk and Benghazi, and having to take over from a sick driver, his arrival in Tripoli to join the 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, 1st Armoured Division (Eighth Army), but ending up in 7th Battalion the Rifle Brigade, then in action and under fire, his duties as a Signaller, the death of friends, the German surrender, seeing thousands of prisoners of war, coming down with sand-fly fever, victory parades, and moving to Alexandria to put an end to a mutiny of men of the Greek Brigade, as well as giving details of other Shakleford residents who had served in North Africa.
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Copies of a series of brief articles (14pp) written for the Shakleford Village Hall newsletter in 2011, charting his journey as a Signals Officer who, after finishing a Signal's Instructors' Course in Cairo, was given command of No 9 Vehicle Company Convoy and ordered to travel 1500 miles from Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt, to Tripoli, Libya (March 1943), with details of the convoy, the men, the vehicles, the route via Buq Buq, Tobruk and Benghazi, and having to take over from a sick driver, his arrival in Tripoli to join the 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, 1st Armoured Division (Eighth Army), but ending up in 7th Battalion the Rifle Brigade, then in action and under fire, his duties as a Signaller, the death of friends, the German surrender, seeing thousands of prisoners of war, coming down with sand-fly fever, victory parades, and moving to Alexandria to put an end to a mutiny of men of the Greek Brigade, as well as giving details of other Shakleford residents who had served in North Africa.
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