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It's Armed Forces Day today
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What does a day like this mean to you? Why is it so important celebrating our forces and our veterans like yourself
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Why is it important? It's great to see so many people here today. It surprised me that so many people have come forward
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to celebrate the Armed Forces Day. Anyway, it's great to be here
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and see so many people And tell me a little bit about your service
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Where were you based and where did you serve? 1945, I was in Norway
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1943, I was in Egypt Just two different contrasts I've been all over
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And what was Egypt like? What were you involved in, in Egypt
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Preparing for the second front. Practising re-earning on the beach
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at a place called HMS Dundonald. HMS Dundonald in peacetime was a butlery-donaldy camp
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But in wartime, it was HMS Dundonald. You were in the Royal Engineers
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What did you do What was your role What was your job The role I had driving bridges about
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Barely bridges. we we
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we crossed every river in the south of England with a barely bridge
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and celebrating a day like the Armed Forces Day, why is it right that
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We remember your service and the service of those that are no longer with us
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These friends of mine, not mine, was Ernie Stein, Billy Harrison, both gone, my schoolmates
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And I shan't see them anymore. They were shot down. Billy Jack, Billy Harrison
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went across on one of the first thousand bomber raids and waited to
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give permission to land to refill it. And he crashed. So therefore he did his job
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but couldn't couldn't get any petrol, any fuel to carry on
