On 11/05/2015 22:35, Doctor John wrote:
> On 11/05/15 20:54, Stephen wrote:
>>
>> He got a free trip to Burma and it only cost him a toe.
>>
>
> I hope he didn't have to stay at one of the holiday camps that the
> Japanese so kindly provided.

No, he didn't but my sister-in-law used to visit a chap who did. Harry 
was really unfortunate. He fell on a bayonet while he was lying on the 
ground as the Japanese were going home.

> My dad only got to visit Normandy and then eventually Germany.
> Unfortunately, he ended up in the vicinity of Bergen-Belsen (as I think
> you know, he was in the RAMC).

Least said soonest mended.

> My granddad (on my dad's side) went over
> to France in 1916; I think he must have lost his return ticket as he
> never came back.
>


I can understand that. They almost got me the first time I went to Paris 
on a course. They had real food and it changed my life.


-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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