Re:Cpl Ferrars Squad Caterham - 1940



"Behind the back row, all on his own, is our Trained Soldier-Gough, looking to my aged eyes as a very young TS, and next to him on his right our PT instructor, who rumour has it that he was the heavyweight boxing champion of the British and Commonwealth Armies.
 I got in touch with a particular pal this morning-Joe Brown-in the middle of the bottom row of the squad photo. (Click on it to enlarge)
It's strange looking back after all these years. I finished up in the 2nd Batn., as  the electrician in No.1 Squadron, but the only other person in the 2nd was Harold Beckwith that I remember. He became a Troop Sergeant in No. 1 Squadron.
After the Battalion handed the Shermans in I carried on looking after all the other vehicles, and we spent our last months delivering coal and bread to the German population. I was demobbed in Group 32 officially in September 1946, after six years and three months in the Micks.

It's interesting that so many Manchester men served with the Regiment. My mother's milkman, and the insurance agent from the Brittanica were among them, though the latter was killed at Anzio. Many of us joined the Manchester branch afterwards, and six of us, plus wives, still meet every three months or so for a meal. Very lucky people, all of us wounded at one time or another."

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