About Our Words: Army Days
Brian Leaver from Whalley, Lancashire, is enjoying and identifying with Ronnie Bray's account of Army days in Egypt.
Brian writes:
Thanks, Ronnie for another trip down memory lane. I remember Goodge Street well. I had the misfortune to find that my top bunk was next to a Tannoy speaker whilst there, sleep becoming something other people enjoyed.
The York transport out of Stansted, with its canvas seats is indelibly imprinted too. Being the party pedant I cannot resist correcting the number of engines on a York. They were four Rolls Royce Merlins, as the Lancaster, as were tail section and undercarriage design.
With a stop at Malta (Luca) and eventually Fayid, with its transit camp, the trip taking almost fourteen hours. I was later posted to an RE Squadron on the outskirts of Port Said, a year later to Tobruk, so I remember El Adem too.
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