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Eighteen Months Behind The German Lines And Then
A FAREWELL
years-omo
TO ARMS
By Capt. Richard Garrett
A Prisoner
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these men,
Every notico
village rd. threatening
Barracks Blown Up
an
the
On the 16th and 16th of July, knew that to belong to the right | captured. 1939, 48,473 young men went country is no counter for Inck ceived away from their homes to serve of arms and equipment. Still death to anyone befriending six months compulsory military-ho was hopeful.
A German wireless service. That six months be Ryall'a battalion landed at detachment set itself upon on came eix
never Algiers within a fow weeks of a
hill some yards from roturned from it—but there- the first fight. The spearhead house in which Ryall and his mainder are now back where forces were then well on their triend were hiding. Additional they started. Back in "civvy way into Tunisia, and this time precautions had to bo takon. the Allies had control of the One of the villagers conducted street" .... H.K.S 9.00
In July, 1959, Alfred Ryall air.
the men to a broken down HI.K.$18.00
came away from the green He found Algiers a dis-shed in the middle of viro- slopes, dappled with plag heaps, appointing city. It had looked yard, telling them not on any HI.K.$30.00
of the Rhondda Valley of Car- 80 Ane from the sea in the sun-account to come out during the diff. He was n 20 year old light of that warm January hours of daylight. Food was Welshman who, like his father, afternoon; but when ho got brought to them at night. MARRIAGE had spent most of his life amid there he found it dirty, worried, But the partisan movement
the coal mines. At the age of and in need of a faco-lift. The was growing and the Italian
to him tick-were obviously not going to lose Gallup polls recently taken in 14 he had gone to work under- Arabs seemed the British Isles seem to add up to ground, carrying coal from the infested and racket-ridden, the the services of 2 such capable conl-face to trucks. Later, French perplexed. and sus-fighters as these British in- an unusually good advertisement
through night-study, he had plolous.
fantrymen. The local partisan, for marriage. They go to show managed to take over an un- The 1st Army's role when lender made 1 proposition that 12 per cent. of British wives gineering job on the surface. Ryall arrived at the front was to Rynl! which resulted in the have "no fault to find" with their He had worked at this until a to act as a stop force, prevent-two men being enrolled in the husbands and that 17 per cent. of few weeks
of receiving his ing Rommel forcing his way in- guerilla organisation. British hushands have "no fault calling-up notico. At that time to Algeria to escape the 8th іл Norway, the to find" with their wives, It is his job became redundant, and, Army. As surely encouraging news in this with a sense of relief, he left the mines to become a brick-
For 18 months Ryall and his imperfect world that twelve hur layer. He was now off to ro
friend fought the Germans as bands in every hundred are perceive his first taste of the Army,
partisans. Their activities In- fect men and seventeen wives in Training with the Welch
|cluded everything from raids on every hundred perfect women. 1 Regiment proved a very much
transport to marking up maps faultless men and women are so more pleasant affair than Ryall
for a secret agent. Once they aeroplane factory, common as this, still commoner had dared hope for; he had an trouble began for him when the raided must be men and women with innute sense of discipling which battalion moved back from out destroying or damaging 22 en- just enough faults to make then made the restrictions of Army series of positions to another.gines and getting away with a
life more easily bearable.
'The Germans selected that considerable quantity of bou- Shortly after the outbreak of moment to put in a local attack, zine. On another occasion two "Not too bright or good
war he was posted to the 8th which resulted in Ryall being German deserters joined the. For human naturre daily food.' Sherwood Foresters. As well taken prisoner.
group. As test of their fidelity Evidently either men and wo, as being a good athlete, he play-
to the Allied cause, these men were included to blow up the men have improved in recented the cornet; so when he ar
new unit they
barracks in which their own years or the wise men of the mat rived at his
During the first few days of regiment, was stationed. The took too gloomy a view of mar- posted him to the band. There
followed more weeks of train-captivity the victim is too tired operation went without a hitch. riage. Bacon quotes an ancient
wero heavy sage who, on being asked whening, much of the time spent in and too stunned to appreciate Sometimes there
a small town in Co. Durham, what it means. The truth takes' casualties: Ryall lost two of his a man should marry, replied: "A where Ryall found himself once its time asserting itself, and best friends in a battle towards young man not yet; an elder man again in the shadow of the pit-when it does do the realization the end of the campaign. Some not at all." Montagne was scane beads which had dominated his is gradual: like part of the body times lives were saved by the as on the occasion coming to life after a local an- guerillas: more cheerful. "It happens youth. lv
aesthetic. So it was to Ryall, when a timely rald prevented as with cages," he said; "the birds without despart to get in, and
In Norway
The last days in North Africa, the execution of 7 Italians 12- are just a number of confused 'cused of harbouring P.O.Ws. those within despair of getting
Iis first experience of action impressions which he is still The campaign, so far as Ryall out." The good hearted Mr.
came in the spring of 1940, a unable to interpre
was concerned, reached its Pepys was never more cynical
few days after the Nazis invad- He sailed from Africa in a climax when the two remaining. than when he wrote in his diary; ed Norway. The 8th Foresters freight boat owned and manned English members of the group "Strange to say with what delight formed part of a slender force by Italians. Of those days of led the Italians into Turin, and we married people have to sec whose task it was to drive the captivity he now remembers captured the city before the ar-'
out of central little more than when he had rival of the American forces. these poor,
fools decayed into our German forces
the
Norway, and control the iron enough to eat, or when he was Ryall returned condition." Even
to England, great.
very hungry. His early days in and, after several months of hearted Dickens seldom paints are route from Sweden.
The Foresters had not been Italy are a record of working work at an officers' transit married woman in all the colouts in position long before the Ger- for farmers and refusing to mess, he was demobilized. of perfection. Our would not mans succeeded in scattering feed the German forces, he de- advise any young man setting out the Norwegian resistance, and learned that the bulk of the in life to get a wife like Mis. pushing through to their for grain from the land on which
Some days ago I paid a vialt Jellyby or Mrs. Micawber or ward positions. There followed he was working was going to
withdrawal to the work for farmers. When he to Ryall at his home in the Mrs. Gamp or Mr. Nickleby or a running the second Mrs. Tony Weller. naval craft at Andalsnes. The cided upon a one man "go slow" Rhondda. As I walked up the
WOME stretcher-bearera
kept strike. This resulted in banish-street a couple of tough moun-- "Wen you're a married man,
punishment camp tain sheep straggled in from Samivel," said Tony to his son busy during this journey, car-ment to
rying the wounded in requisi- where conditions turned out the hills, "nuzzling the nshecang in regard to marriage, you'll untioned Norwegian vehicles. The to be very much batter than outside each
door. It derstand a good many things as roads were in a bad state of re- in the one from which he had was raining, low clouds covered ground with here you don't understand, now but pair, the nights intensely cold, been sent. He remained there the higher
came out of and there àn anomalous slag vether its worth while goin' and the days harrassed by the until the Italians
heap forming a sharp pointed through so much to learn so littic,, fire of German artillery. Ryall the war,
On the day of the Italian growth on the green slopes. as the charity boy sail ven he got found that action in the shade
umbrella armistice Ryall and his friend, Everywhere were the pit-heuds to the end of the alphabet, is a of the Chamberlain matter of taste." The popular was not the fun it was cracked Leslie Paradine, took advantage-the symbol of prosperity and the Rhondda. Ryall of the prevailing confusion to slump in Victorian novelists, did suggest The years 1941 and 1942 slip over the wall of the camp. told me of the dark days of the that the world is full of happy passed with little event. Ryall They act off for Switzerland. fate 20s and early 30s, when.
his childhood sweet-! To cross marriages between a faultless or married
the plain of Loni-jazz bands did their best to re- almost faultless hero and a fault-heart, and, later. was trans-bardy, which in those days was vive the flagging spirits of the when grocer and less or almost faultless heroine. ferred to the ack ack platoon of swarming with Germans, was no unemployed,
2/5th Foresters. These mean task. Ryall and his friend butcher often allowed goodwill. But the Victorian love story was the
better judgment' usually a story, not about hus-events alone stand out against a had not travelled very far when to overcome bands and wives, but of a hero and flatland of training and cook they decided that it might be where credit was concerned, better to head South in the when he and his father combed
for heroine of whose lives after the house fatigues.
of the Within a few months of join- direction
British and the alug heaps
the odd chunk of coal._____ wedding we were told little ex-ing-his--new-battalion he want-American- lines..
Byall, like so many other cept that they lived happily ever Into action for the second time. after. Now we learn from the
sons of miners, has a horror of returning to the cramped space, Gailup polls that the Victorian
The two friends had not been the dust which so often lends novelette was truer to life than
Before Norway Ryall had at large long when they fell in to silicosis, and the sweating the modern realistic stories like
Italiana who were heat of underground. Before
ho Mr. Sinclair. Lewis's latest in looked upon the art of war as with two which we see marriage as a surt easy. He had a touching faith later to pay leading parts in the his military service
movement in certain powers, almost super-partisan
against about to become u bricklayer: These men gave the the CRU put him on the right of purgatory to which many of natural, which enabled the Bri- German. us would prefer the comparative tish to win walk-over vices Englishmen food and shelter. lines to take up the threads of QUEEN'S CAMERA EXCHANGE & STUDIO solitude of a gaol. On the whole, against the toughest opposition. providing them with a pled-building where he put
then, young peopic contemplating But Nurway had taught him torra in their village.
down, After, 6 weeks at this mare From all around came reports helpful unit he was due to take marriage will find good ground otherwise,
government training in the Gallup polls for taking a guarded in his judgment; helcf escaped P.O.Ws. being re-
scheme, emerging us a qualified rosy view of the future. The
By
tradesman earning perhaps €1 chances of happiness for the mar-
a day. Ryall needs this money ried appear to be considerable. In
to support his wife and their Shirley, Onco fact if married people are com-
baby daughter. the driver.
he Was worried; now hís pletely unselfish, du not find fault
troubles seem to be at an end. Ryall will build; and as he builds houses, so will he build hits brave new world,'
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Dear Sir
smoke too much, and aren't too cloat fission practised hitherto hard to please, there is quite a generated a mere mehaly 200,000,- good chance that they will be hap-000 electron volts. The new ma- pier than if they were living sing chine will generate 800,000,000 electron voits, of perish miseratly ly in lodging house, like Captain Cuttle under the tyranny of his bonefit to the housewife! No more authentic roll-call of not the low sinks, no more goal fires, no least usefed and annotated, this fandlady, Mrs. MieStinger,
of citizens. Fully Los Alamos, New Mexico, June 0. more fiel queues. No more any documented
The government's atomic bomb thing perhaps.
exhaustive research bears witness laboratory where research was to those hambla byways of scholar. conducted on the epochal weapon ship which attract the specialist. today, anbounced that “s: smail If there is a criticism to be made number of persons were Injured, it is that some of the focular foul- one of them possibly coriously" notes, striking a comic note, are In an accident at the laboratory
work on May 21. out of place in a grave
project declined to give the The brothers Gobble (E. L. and B.B.F) no doubt lend themselves detalls out, but said that the ac to facile Jesting, but one profors cident, was neither an explosion the quiet dignity of the note dors are, or facebo which reveals that the three Einu, St. Tho seriousness of the Injurie
von are not brothers, nor avon varied considerably, but was not cousins, and another note which yet determined to informs us that Whipper, ment said that thorough! changed his name to Bigné, alligation on coming into a small legacy.
A passenger who objected to the driver of a bus stopping to Singapore, June 0. buy things at various shops asked Bor: of Allied Command headquarters the conductress if this bore said yesterday that no infot thing was going on for long. To matten had been received in which the girl replied: "Do you
you are Little Lord Fauatlo Singapore of say massacre
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A passenger in a local train got out at station. walked to the engine, and said to the driver "I may, can't you go a bit faster
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