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Pictures from 18th May 2004. Meeting a WW1 Veteran, Henry Allingham. |
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Henry Allingham enlisted as
a mechaninc into the RNAS in 1915 and served aboard HMS Kingfisher at the
Battle of Jutland. Later, when the RNAS joined the Royal Flying
Corps he was on the ground with the Army in Flanders, Ypres and the Somme. One of his anecdotes from Ypres I have read is about falling into a shell hole whilst looking for plane wreckage. "It was night, it was full of water and it stank. It was full of rats and had legs, bodies and arms everywhere. I thought I would drown in there but couldn't move until dawn in case of booby traps." On meeting him he told me that on the night of the armistice when all the lads were out partying for miles around he turned in for an early night and no doubt was able to get the soundest nights sleep for years. |
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