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- Maldon District Libraries
- People in story:听
- Mary Josephine Anne Gallagher
- Location of story:听
- Derby
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4190140
- Contributed on:听
- 14 June 2005

Lighting Smokescreens
This is my memory of a soldier lighting two smokescreens outside houses in Holcombe Street, Derby, during the war.He had a khaki uniform, black boots, white gaiters between boots and socks. The reason for the smokescreens was the proximity to the Rolls Royce factory , LMS locomotive works, and Carriage and Wagon, Leys Malleable Castings, Combustion, Qualcast. I believe the soldier may have come from the Sherwood Foresters at the then Normanton barracks in Sinfin Lane, Derby.
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