- Contributed by听
- Tommy Mac
- People in story:听
- Tommy Mc Sorley
- Location of story:听
- Glasgow.Perthshire .Bishopbriggs
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A1072351
- Contributed on:听
- 07 June 2003
At the start of the War ,I was immediately evacuated to a village in Perthshire ,named Ballinliuig ,some 75 miles away from my home City of Glasgow.
It was for our own protection we were told .
Yet srangely enough, the girl who is now my wife and whom I hadnt even met by then, lived in the village of Mavis Valley, in the Burgh of Bishopbnriggs.
This village was only 4 miles away from where I was evacuated from .Yet within this village there was an Army encampment with a few hundred soldiers.But worse than that!
Ther was also a very lage ammunition dump situated somewhere within this village . In fact ,my future father in law was employed as a guard at this dump as he was too old for the Army ,having served in the First World War.
It is so strange to think that authorities could send us 75 miles away to protect us ,yet allow an ammunition dump to be situasted on our very doorstep.
Strange the way beaurocratic minds work .
Tommy Mac
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