- Contributed byÌý
- kirstywaknell
- People in story:Ìý
- Mr D Miller
- Location of story:Ìý
- France
- Background to story:Ìý
- Army
- Article ID:Ìý
- A2237726
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 27 January 2004
In January 1940, aged 22, I went to France as part of the Duke of Wellington Regiment. On 12th June I was wounded and in a hospital in France. I became a POW and ended up in Czechoslovakia. In 1944/45 the Russians came and let us go. I flew back to England with the RAF.
I also had a brother who was a POW.
When I was injured I had a tin of drinking chocolate in my back pocket. There was shrapnel stuck in it once I was hit which was lucky.
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