about 24 years ago I took my Tilly into a tyre shop to get the front wheels balanced. There was an old guy there who was some sort of part time janitor who got all excited because my Tilly was baring the markings of his old unit "5th Dorsets 43rd Wessex Div".
He told me that he was part of a flame thrower carrier crew, and that there were no heroics with his job as they stayed well behind the fighting front lines and had the most unenviable job of cremating dead Germans. They piled the body's up and doused them with the liquid before incinerating them with a flame. They also set light to houses through a door or window if they suspected any live Germans to be inside.
Not nice I know. But all part of war I'm afraid.
Ron
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20-02-15, 17:06
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