A Lancashire Lad Goes to War by Kenneth Ashton Brooke

A Lancashire Lad Goes To War. Chapter 1

When travelling by train we had to keep our fingers crossed that the class finished no later than 9...

A Lancashire lad Goes to War: Chapter 2

I went to a Christmas Eve dance with Dorothy at the local church hall. Whilst I was on leave from...

A Lancashire lad Goes to War : Chapter 3

A voyage up the Red Sea took us to Port Tewfik, where we all disembarked, were given a cup of tea and...

A Lancashire Lad Goes to War :Chapter 4

Two 5.5” guns of the Free French were about 400 yards north of our position, and nearby was a...

A Lancashire lad Goes to War : Chapter 5

To boil the water, we used a 'Benghazi' - a flimsy 5-gallon petrol tin cut in half, with wire...

A Lancashire lad Goes to War: Chapter 6

When we alighted, an English boy aged 12 or 13 asked if we were staying in Cairo for a few days, to...

A Lancashire Lad Goes to War: Chapter 7

Then one day, a rather well-spoken and well-educated but unassuming lad waited until the sergeant almost...

A Lancashire lad Goes to War: Chapter 8

A Spandau machine gun would fire at us from the German side, but the bullets would fall short by about 15...

A Lancashire Lad Goes to War : Chapter 9

There were cliffs about thirty or forty feet high in a horseshoe formation around the German unit and...

A Lancashire Lad Goes to War :Chapter 10

Most of the canteens at Larkhill were crowded, so Roy Rix, who was a Gunner, generally borrowed my...

A lancashire lad Goes to War : Chapter 11

He asked his driver to continue but this was impossible as he also had a young girl draped across him and a...

A lancashire Lad Goes to War : Chapter 12

Later on, a well-dressed Dutchman presented himself at our base and offered to show us the locations of...