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Stomachs and sensibilities upset but brave Wren restores harmony

on terra firma:  World War Two troops disembark  ship at port; below, Charles Barton Mann.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

RAF Sergeant Charles Mann kept his diary by his side as he went off to serve during World War Two in 1944. In the third extract to be serialised by the Derby Telegraph, he details a voyage aboard the cramped SS Strathmore, taking troops to Bombay, in India. Just days into the...

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This is it, we've had it now, we thought as we saw our ship

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

After being waved off by crowds of cheering women at a train station, Sergeant Charles Barton Mann wondered how the next chapter of his wartime life...

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Waiting in a dark hangar, laden down with painful backpacks

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Together with his rifle, ammunition packs and water bottle, RAF Sergeant Charles Barton Mann always carried a pen and a few sheets of A4 paper at his...

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