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Show L LIE RI TE DALE ugu t 16 2001 h yeah they re over here. You ve got to go to Alexandria. ' o I said Oh. I wasn t thinking I was going to get posted to a field regiment because they didn t know about me. But I just missed it by this guy seeing me. And he sent me to- I went off to Alexandria and met up with the regiment. Anyway they were all pleased to see me. They were all surprised. They said, "We heard you were dead." I said, "No." They said, "We heard you got sunk." I said, "No, no, we came over ... " Well, anyway, the major wanted to see me. I had to go to the major's office. He said, "You've lost the vehicle." I said, "I lost it sir? I didn't lose it." And I told him the story. He said, "Oh, well, in that case, it wasn't your fault." I said, "No, I'm just happy to be here." So he said, "We're happy to have you." And that was it. Within a couple of weeks we were on the boat, on a destroyer, going up to Tobruk. We didn't know where we were going, but we were loaded onto this navy boat and we went off to To bruk. Because at that time, 1941-that was June '41, that's right-To bruk was in a state of siege, and you couldn't get in by road or rail. The only way was by sea. And they were taking supplies up there. So we went with them. We were the new detachment for the guns. And we had several narrow escapes there because we were dive bombed by the Germans. The bombs dropped all around us, but we were lucky. I've always been lucky, all my life. I was born on Friday the 13th. That's what I always tell people. So we got to Tobruk, and it was kid of scary, really, because Tobruk had been bombed. It was pretty derelict. We got taken up to this fort, and we were told that we were going on these guns, these 8-inch naval guns, guarding the ocean and the harbor. And we took over from the 17 |
