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THE BOMB ANGLERS VOLUNTEER AGAIN

N the saloon bar of the saw that war was inevitable

Jolly Anglers, a City he came home and joined

tavern-in Bath Street, the Army. After the war Finsbury, a stranger 'could he settled down as a Lon- easily imagine he is over- don publican. hearing the tallest of all

These men, whose daily fishing stories-especially when the anglers around companions were hideously the bar are talking about lethal lumps of high ex- how a 500-pounder, or even plosive, are complete fatal a two-tonner, was hooked ists. and brought up.

the

by James STUART

In the Middle East,

Axis forces

afler

NO PARING

damage and I was likely to to off at any minute.

- Martin ("He was absolutely fearless they all ZAHRNUT hamb calmly sat astride the while he scraped out the fuse. He raw travela daily from been had driven from the Western De his home at Cheam, Surrey, to his the West End office where he. art he was told to take

for a big

engineers, company and clear the desert 18 cales manager of all high explosive left be firm of electrient hind by anybody.

Job He is be. took him from El Alamein o Tunisia, blowing up thousands "MINEFIELD KING' of tons of HE.

The

Tall, slim, fair-haired Handa sums But all these anglers Major John wear, a little bomb lapel up their feelings; "I have badge and, most of them, a great belief in the. In enemy bomb dump in. One big bb given the "R

finite."

He remembers dealing with

Major

Medal

over

won

for his

It was not always bombs: Sahora 400 miles from the red and blue tie of the

This fatalism, plus

where. The place was well Femb Disposal men when the Royal Engineers. The

Hands picked threat of invasion was comradeship unbeaten in booby-trupped. catches they discuss are

mincaclds. The "Minefield any of the Services, is the "p one of the charges the was the clearance of the beach safe way, to show his other bombs.

King" was

Jchn reason why many of the officers how it was done. Sud (Ginger") Warren, who The Jolly men have joined

George a new denly an Arab guide picked up Anglers i s

the safety work. "He's the luckiest man Supplementary Reserve unit, another, without

the "That was the meeting

precautions.

be alive today," says Ser- "grmember,” ha anya, The to place of the No. 187 Bomb Disposal Re-

Willarn Brown, of giment. W

explosion killed four men out ont

Blackfriars, Street, who

Hands Wits right; "Somehow there'a

blown Scoresbys

hut who worked with him on the daily risked sutisfaction in drawing the through the roof of the

beaches. At Littlestone-un- their lives teeth of a bomb," says land- and landed unconscious

Sen, Kent, two

ren had becu lord Nash.

minefteld.

blown up by a mine and War- digging up

When the air raids started, ren ran 380 yards across little was known about bomb minefield to get an ambulance.

COL. MARSHALL The C.D.

men.

and defusing

ETBAL

the bombs WAR OFFICE MAN

which falled

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The

disposal work. "We had three

He is now back at his job 10-minute keturez and he

as a surveyor at Bexleyheata; to explode Commander of the new Sup- we knew as much as the Ir- Im mediately plementary Reservo regiment structors," said Major Charles his hobby is cricket.

Sergeant Brown, who runs a He commanded

covered the small transport business, got when they were dropped on fe Lleut-colonel H. O. ("Dick" Meat.

of Warwick Place, company which

the British Empire Medal. агед north of

NON-BOMB FOOTNOTE: The try and the rest of our of No. 2 Group, which covered Thames. Now 50 and white-

the lamb disposal buys no to ex haired, he, is a building con- towns and cities which the South-East England, and

Tower of London on Alay 10 for a ilving at Norwood or match against the Yearch Assistant Director of Bomb tractor Luftwaffe attacked.

Disposal at the War Offee. Green, Osterley, Middlesex,

Warders of the Tower.

On meeting nights, lund-

Colonel Marshall, an electri- lord Charles Nash puts on cal engineer, works (as a clvi- his own Sappers tie and lian) in his Westminster office

13:11 Arm: Tong, en Edin fixes the little bomb badge during the week. But at week ends he is a frequent visitor

burgh man, now liver at - replica of the sign to Bomb Disposal Headquarien Streatham Hill, where he is a which hangs outside the ai Broadbridge Heath,

quantity surveyor. He tackled Jolly Anglers - in his Harshan, Sussex.

the, two-tonner which is well- buttonhole. As he pulls up He has already got

known to people living at Around Stoneleigh Fark Avenue, Shir- It took over pints for ex-officers and wartime D.D. officers

him as squadron commanders. Iey, Croydon.

out. gut

The sappers alike (there never him a Major Hands; another two years to

had fallen into en was a more matey Service Major Bertram S... Archer, bamb unit, they say).. Charlie whs won the George Cross in artesian spring. "I was seven months on that job myself," Nash can swap stories with 1941.

Armstrong says. them on an equal footing. Archer, who smokes a Sher-

Too old to For he, too, as a captain, lock Holines pipe, is an archt- spent the war years digging Hands is now general manager Cyril Martin, tect in practice in Gray's Inn. George 'Cross up bombs in London, Bris- of a big road havinge concern the tol, Plymouth and other in Edgware Road dealing lorge- 1914-18 war. No details were revealed of his gallantry wher cities, as well as in the ly with milk transpart."

he won the GC in 1943, but Middle East.

When Hiller threatened in- his comrades told me some of For 15 years before the vasion Hands was engaged on. the story. It was a big bomb

blowing up plers around the which fell at Battersea.

several

rejoin, now 19 winner Major. who had Military Cross in The

won.

war Captain Nash was a cost. Then he was switched In coming down It had been railway engineer in Bolivia, to bomb disposal around "Heil- badly scored by hitting South America.

iron girder,

The When he are Corner."

fus

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NEW era in pleasing fewer regulations. Today, with bit which, thould rock most faces, many weary spiritedly when the ship is at the child passenger has lower al

mothers quail at the thought of sea, and in an adjoining area begun. Modern shipwrights a tedious voyage with a brood of closed-in 'deck space there are learning to study his of querulous children. Result: Is a paddling pool and sandplt. well-being, for Shipping lines realise that Junior wields an influence with the family.

"Daddy! I say Daddy! There's a much better playroom on the red-funnel ships. And a rock-

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The fort might have come. straight out of "Beau Geste," are and will undoubtedly be the ut scene of many desperata battles between small one of the Empire. And a roomy play pon la guaranteed to control the most intrepid year-old Just

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