- Contributed by听
- L Jackson
- People in story:听
- Jeffrey Jackson
- Location of story:听
- Palestine
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A1109684
- Contributed on:听
- 15 July 2003
[1943 section of Jeffrey Jackson's war memoirs, edited by L Jackson
Unit: no. 2 Mobile Anti-Gas Laboratory, Royal Engineers,
Locations: Palestine,
Title: "Palestine 1943"]
"I'm afraid that I annoyed [my Commanding Officer] Major [Leonard] Kent by writing anti-Army articles for the unit magazine, the Bullfighter, which was edited by Bob Tongue, a fitter from the Black Country. We now had a doctor, Major Curwen, with us to deal with the medical aspects of the trials being carried out on volunteers. He was related to a member of the Crazy Gang, and with the aid of our composer, Bill Churchill, and poet, Noel Wilkinson, put on two excellent shows, to which selected locals were invited. The Italian capitulation [1943] was followed by a riotous night in which Tommy Tucker, our cockney cook, broke his arm, but didn't realise this until the following morning - he was too drunk to notice."
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