Thanks for another excellent piece, Cyclefree. May I just add that my daughter was sexually interfered with by our local GP, Dr Alan Tutin, when she was sixteen. It was a fairly minor case and I neve… (View Post)

The Glasshouse could be nasty but on active service in North Africa it was unlikely to be any worse than manning your gun in the desert. Dad got thrown in there from time to time, but made light of i… (View Post)

He personally would likely have been good, but the GoP was already going down the toliet by then. Not sure he could have stopped it. (View Post)

Tell me about it. I got to read my Dad's war correspondence, about 400 letters, during lockdown. He would describe, for example, casually walking down Kingsland High Road during an air raid and … (View Post)

Dad was one of five brothers, all were actively involved in the war - three as gunners, one in the RAF, one in the ambulance corps. Three were unscathed, Dad was wounded at Tobruk and invalided out o… (View Post)