Monday, October 22, 2007
"KEREN" March 1941.
Having spent several weeks in a field hospital just outside Khartoum with a small wound in my left knee and and a dose of dysentry which I would not like to experience again I was discharged from the hospital and went to the station ready to go back to my battery.
The train was just sat there I thought we were never going to move, so I got off the train and jumped on a taxi went into Khartoum started to drink glasses of rum they had no beer, the next thing I remember was waking up in the guardroom feeling like nothing on earth, of course I had missed my train back to my battery.
So it was in front of the O.C. I found myself being charged with striking two Redcaps resisting arrest and the O.C. said I was lucky not to be charged with desertion and shot,but I got away with 48 hours hard labour .In the glasshouse every prisoner had to do everything at the double,and when were locked in our little single cells, after tea we were given a stack of dirty pots pans and dixies and had to polish them until they shone like silver with just a bathstone and a cloth.
Released and marched under an armed guard to the station again put on the train and started my two day journey back to my battery at Keren.
The train was just sat there I thought we were never going to move, so I got off the train and jumped on a taxi went into Khartoum started to drink glasses of rum they had no beer, the next thing I remember was waking up in the guardroom feeling like nothing on earth, of course I had missed my train back to my battery.
So it was in front of the O.C. I found myself being charged with striking two Redcaps resisting arrest and the O.C. said I was lucky not to be charged with desertion and shot,but I got away with 48 hours hard labour .In the glasshouse every prisoner had to do everything at the double,and when were locked in our little single cells, after tea we were given a stack of dirty pots pans and dixies and had to polish them until they shone like silver with just a bathstone and a cloth.
Released and marched under an armed guard to the station again put on the train and started my two day journey back to my battery at Keren.
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