Like every other young man in Britain after the end of World War II in 1945 I was required to do my National Service. That is, compulsory service in the armed forces of the Crown. Unlike most of my comrades, I decided to write about my experience in this National Service memoir. It begins here. [Read more…]
So I left home for the training regiment, Royal Artillery, Oswestry.
After a train journey from Paddington Station in London through the Midlands and parts of England I had not seen before I arrived at Oswestry, Shropshire, at about mid-day. Outside in the station yard there was a military presence and it was not long before I was in the back of a truck along with many others being taken to Park Hall Lines, a hutted camp on the outskirts of the town. [Read more…]
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