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- Wakefield Libraries & Information Services
- People in story:听
- Stanley Westerman
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A3507112
- Contributed on:听
- 11 January 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War site by Bridie Wright of Wakefield Libraries and Information Services on behalf of Stanley Westerman and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
I was called up on May 15th 1941 at the age of 19, and went off to Canterbury to join the BUFFS, a training regiment, for 6 weeks. I then went to Catterick for about 9 months for more training, to Croydon where I was taught driver mechanics for about 3 months and then back to Catterick for another 9 month period. I then began an intensive training period in Scotland, first in Huntley, Aberdeenshire where the 52nd Mountain Division were training for mountain recovery of vehicles, and to Aviemore in the Cairngorms where we stayed under canvas from September to January. We even had to wash in the loch. We made trailers to go to Burma in 1942/43. I remained there until D-Day, and if that attack had failed I would have had to go to Norway. As it turned out D-Day was a success and my unit was disbanded. I was then sent to Cairo where I was in charge of transport and after that to Tel-el-Kabir in the desert. I was demobbed in 1946 in Bath.
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