- Contributed by
- armyBryanD
- People in story:
- Mr C.B.HorwoodMrs R.G.Horwood 2 sons Clifford & Bryan.
- Location of story:
- Various army camps in UK.
- Background to story:
- Civilian
- Article ID:
- A3215675
- Contributed on:
- 02 November 2004
My first rememberance of the war was a visit to the cookhouse in Colchester army barracks where my father was a solider so my brother & me could be fitted with the gas masks at the start of the 1939 war.. I was just 5 years old with my brother a year older.Mother & dad wer stationed at the Colchester barracks when father was moved from Weymouth Portland Bill camp at the outbreak of war.
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