| I saw an old pre-war film starring the actor Victor Mac lagan possibly called the North West Passage firing a Vickers Machine gun from the hip the date was 1942
So at the ripe old age of 17 years I decided that was going to be my way of entering the war against the Third Reich for destroying our home with the bombing of the East End of London so after manufacturing another birthday ( like many thousands of others) I asked and was put into the Middlesex Regiment where I quickly learned that it was virtually impossible to fire the gun from the hip nevertheless they transferred me to there sister Regiment the 1st Battalion The Princess Louise Kensington Regt
So in 1943 landed in Africa and joined the 78th Battleaxe Division although hostilities
By then had ended in North Africa then the invasion of Sicily and Sunny Italy where all their battles are well documented (written with tongue in cheek bit true)
Regards to all niccar |