Can you Help? Events Visiting Shop. I was 44 years old. She was ill in bed covered in cotton wool because of her rheumatism.
In another bed was my year old son. He suffered from rheumatic fever. The doctor visited each day to test his heart condition. The little girl of 3 was playing on the hearth. My daughter of 8 was looking after the house and the patients.
When I told my wife of my action she cried and said 'God forgive you, I never will' but you see I had been the President of a Trade Union and I knew what my fate would be if Hitler came to England. Besides I was a trained soldier. My unit had been organised from Corporation staff for the concreting of R. They had no training in musketry. They promised to effect my transfer as concreting was not soldiering, but on May 10th the enemy entered Belgium.
Our company stood by their vehicles. I asked Lieutenant Bolton what the next move was. He said "we are untrained so we'll go back home". I told him "I came to fight Hitler and he is up north, not to the west". As we moved to the coast in darkness I determined to get away and find my former regiment. I was evacuated from the beaches on May 30th in the destroyer Scimitar and was taken to Blandford Camp, Dorset. I did not find the Northumberland Fusiliers, so I attached myself to various units.
Here are some incidents in my heigara β if that be the correct term. One day I was posted to Quadpre? A young officer was in charge of six of us at a bridge. I went about yards forward with an anti-tank rifle for I had observed some enemy tanks stationary under cover of a wood. After a while a full battalion of Belgian infantry marched in column across the bridge. The CO and his staff rode in a car at the head.
