After a few months of hard training we heard rumours of going overseas, we had been stationed just outside London and we used to watch the nightly bombing and also could see in the searchlights the occasional dog fight.
The next thing that happened we were all sent on embarkation leave and sent up to Liverpool my home town put into a very large dock shed with an armed guard on and two days later we set sail , after a couple of days we had very rough weather about 90% of the troops were really sick for days, we very glad to see Free town in Africa were we stayed for one day for fresh water and vegetables.
Very shortly we were surounded by bum- boats trying to sell us fruit native trinkets and even monkeys, the young negros were diving for coins but only silver ones.
The next day we set off for a new destination
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