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Robert Hill's War

Our advance party to be the D. C. R. E. Major Tolhurst, the Garrison Engineer, Captain Wood, Warrant...

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On returning to Scotland and Inveraray in particular, I was again accommodated on the Southland with the...

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While we were on the most exposed part of the road between Keat Farm and Bishopstone Lane, a German...

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We all got used to hearing aircraft overhead, and could readily identify if it was a "Gerry" or...

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It was near to first light; the officer looked at the snow-covered sentry and gave him a bit of an...

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Usually, as children, we would get some sleep before the sirens went, the ground would shake as the guns...

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I'd no sooner got the words out of my mouth, when Brian's mum opened her front door, she walked...

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Another thing that stemmed from being a scout , the older boys provided they owned a cycle , were allowed...

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We had done quite a few operations of the z-z-s type for convoy protection in the North Sea and by this...

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Not only did the staff have to cope with the patients but they also had many problems from constant air...

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All night long the dogfights overhead, the whistling of sticks of bombs hurtling down, the ear-wrenching...

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During the school holidays, which we were not allowed to spend in London, I was staying with Joan and Duggy...

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Aircraft of all types used Manston for emergency landings. The nearest civilian enterprise to the army...

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Sometimes my mother took me away from Gravesend, to escape the German bombing, and that in itself was quite...

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