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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Linda Freeman of Radio Derby CSV Action Desk on behalf of Walter Bull, and has been added to the site with his permission.The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

Each of the various positions on Anzio were given an identification, the particular one we were taking on this occasion was called Lobster's Claw (it was the custom to identify different positions of the front line on Anzio with reference to the features which they seemed to represent which in this case was a lobster's claw).
I, being the signaller for the company, took over the previously prepared position which turned out to be a trench cut into the vertical bank such that it was impossible for a shell to penetrate, thus making me feel the safest I had been in my many activities during the war.
I was asked by headquarters to try and get a fix (identification) on a German artillary position by sound. The Germans who were excellent at detecting radio signals obviously objected to my communications and proceeded to send me an eighty eight millimetre shell all to myself which went over my head some several feet and struck a disused (fortunately) lavatory blowing it to smithereens.
The grim part of this particular action came when one of our men, armed with a pickaxe, was clearing away for a light artillary piece and unfortunately struck an anti-tank mine which proceeded to leave very little of him left to be buried.

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