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Friday May 26th 2000

I thought I would write an account of my Army life between the years 1935 to 1945, thinking; perhaps, it might be of interest sometime to my children, and grandchildren, or their children. I obviously have forgotten many things, but I have remembered quite a few, as though they only happened yesterday, so I think I will call this —

I Remember

I left school at the age of fourteen on the 25th January 1935, and eighteen days later, on the l2th February 1935 I was in the Army as a Band boy, in the Band of the 2nd Battalion East Surrey Regiment.