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Tony was in the Territorial Army with the Herefordshire Regiment before the Second World War. The day before the outbreak of the war he was loaded onto a bus with new equipment and kit and sent to Hereford. Tony was only 17. From Hereford he was sent to Tenby for...
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Len served in World War II as Sergeant in the Royal Signals. Len had hoped to join the Navy and responded to appeals for volunteers for ‘hazardous duties’ including ‘amphibious landings’. He was sent off to Auchnacarry in Scotland to train as part of Combined...
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Bill Morris was a rear air gunner in the 460 Squadron based at RAF Binbrook in Lincolnshire. He was born in Monmouth in 1924 and lived in Llandogo in the Lower Wye Valley. He left school at 15 and joined the RAF at 16 as an apprentice in admin and accounts. At 18 he...
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Ivor was born in Kington in 1917, he went to Lady Hawkins’ School between 1928 and 1935. He went to college in London and went on to work as a short-hand typist in London. When the Second World War started he joined the Navy and was posted to HMS Echo as a coder and...
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Albert was born in 1920 in Chiselden. In Febuary 1939 at the age of 18, and with the prospect of war looming, Albert joined the Royal Artillery T A in Swindon, Wiltshire. Albert became a sergeant with 112 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery who formed part of the 43rd...
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In 1940, A.G.F (Tony) Ditcham was entered from HMS Worcester as a midshipman into the Royal Navy Reserve. As a member of the Royal Navy for the entire was he saw service across the European theatre of war and eventually into the Far East. The Gunnery Officer of his...
