Chapter 2

67 Training Regiment Royal Artillery, Oswestry, 24 June 1949

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…]