Ch. 6

Pte. BICHENO whom I met in the Military Hospital.
Photo from GAMBIA at mealtime - 1942. Pte. Bicheno is third from the left.
One guy is in the Aussie hat.



Photo from GAMBIA - 1942. Pte. Bicheno is second from right.
I note there are two Australians among them



Bicheno's gun squad. He is standing first on the left.
Was it in Gambia or North Africa? or in Britain?


Saint Helena, a British island in South Atlantic Ocean, where Napoleon was exiled and died. Photo given to me in Capetown on 3 June 1943 by an Engliah soldier who spent 2 years there.



Some unidentified British soldiers

 

 

BILL BAWDEN

Another British soldier I met while in Retreat Military Hospital, Cape Province, South Africa.
Bill Bawden published his verses in a local South African paper while in Capetown.

He autographed one cutting for me and gave me his address in England

BILL BAWDEN (William H. Bawden)
c/o "The Shields Gazette"
Reporter's Room'
SOUTH SHIELDS
ENGLAND


More verses by Bill Bawden in South African paper

Road accident. Note an Indian or Ghurka driver in turban — typical member of wartime British Colonial troops.


Somewhere in Africa during the war (before 1943)


I cannot remember who was there and where was it ?


Mother and son in South African Army Medical Corps
"To Frank from Mrs Cullen, 14 Norfolk Road, Observstory, Cape Town"

Mrs Cullen met me on a street in Cape Town. She saw my Polish Army badge, talked to me and invited home to meet her family.

 
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