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I was born on 31st January 1918 at Somercotes Hill, Somercotes, Derbyshire to parents who were Derbyshire people Ida and Arch Waller. I had one sister Jean. I grew up there and fully expected to work, marry and spend the rest of my life there, which I did eventually. In 1939 when war broke out I volunteered to join up but was turned down for three months on account of medical reasons. I finally joined up in 1940 with the Grenadier Guards because I had heard it was a select mob.

My total war memories are on this site taken from diaries which I kept (unofficially, of course)and which I have published under my own copyright and entitled, "When Bugles Call".

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