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an R.S.M. pleasure bent’. He squats on pole. Lights pipe, drops match. BOOOOOOOOM! There emerges smoke-blackened figure, trousers down, smouldering shirt tail, singed eyebrows, second degree burns on bum a sort of English loss of face.

He was our last casualty before we actually went into action. Next time it would be for real.

Gaiter styles, spotted on day of disembarkation at Alders

Dawn of the Burnt Bum Affair

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE

Part I

HOW IT ALL STARTED

Part II

I JOIN THE REGIMENT

DUNKIRK

SUMMER 1940

LIFE IN BEXHILL 1940-41

Part III

RELIGION

FOOD

APPLICATION FOR RAF PILOT

NIGHT OF THE FIRE RAIDS

BATTERY CHARACTERS

POSTING

‘MONTY’

BARRACK ROOM HUMOUR JOKES PRANKS

MOVING TO MILL WOOD

BURNING OF THE CLUBS (MILL WOOD)

IN BILLETS AGAIN

7.2 GUNS AND THE TIGER SCHEME

SPORTS

FEBRUARY 1941 MOVE FROM TURKEY ROAD SCHOOL TO HAIL…

FIGHT AT ROBIN’S POST—IN HAILSHAM

LARKHILL

LEARNING TO DRIVE

JANKERS

DIEPPE

DETENTION

DECEMBER 1942-JANUARY 1943—EMBARKATION LEAVE

THE TRAIN JOURNEY (BEXHILL-LIVERPOOL)

JANUARY 1943—AT SEA

ALGIERS