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This story has been submitted by Margaret Payne of the Lancashire ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard on behalf of John Dearnley and has been added to the site with his permission.

I was called up on the 1st December 1939. On the 29th May 1940, after three days on the beach, we embarked on a small fishing boat and arrived in Ramsgate at 07.00am. We were directed to the railway station where long trestle type tables were manned by who I presumed were members of the Women’s Institute, where we were given a small bag which contained items of food and an army issued postcard. We were told to write a message on it and throw it out onto any station we passed. I wrote a message on the postcard, saying that I had arrived in England safely, hope to see you soon. That postcard is still in my wife’s possession! I don’t think there’ll be many people in England now with such a postcard.

My regiment then joined the 14th Army and served in Burma until October 1945.

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