- Contributed byÌý
- Mahnewflyer
- People in story:Ìý
- Leonard Somerville Wenham
- Location of story:Ìý
- Woodbury, Devon
- Background to story:Ìý
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:Ìý
- A2326600
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 21 February 2004
My grandfather signed up to the Royal Marines in 1917, posted to Murmansk in 1918 and went on to be a Royal Marine reserve between the wars.
In 1940 he was posted to Lympstone in Devon as driver to the camp commander.
Unfortunately I know very litle of his time there, other than that he was billeted in Woodbury. He once told me of the sword/riding crop he bought my father to protect himself from paratroopers when out riding.
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