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Subject: Re: 'Those Inkerman Depot Blues'

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Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 21:07:55 04/17/05 Sun
In reply to: Dave P. 's message, "Re: 'Those Inkerman Depot Blues'" on 20:05:04 04/17/05 Sun

Dave, difficult to answer that fully. At the time I was pissed when I joined up in Middlesborough. I suppose I wanted to join the Army so badly at the time that I would have excepted anything that they wanted and it wasn't till I got home when my parents put it to me that all the family had always been 'Gunners'. My grandfather was master gunner in Gibraltar and my father had been a sargeant on 25 Pounders before buggering off to Burma to fight the Japs, and various uncles had also been in the RA. They were glad that I had joined up but could not understand why I hadn't gone into the 'Gunners' in the first place. They could see the family tradition coming to a screeching halt with me, so my father writes this letter to somebody he knew and next thing I remember is that I'm transfered to my old stomping ground at Woolwich where I was brought up!.....Confusing isn't it Dave! But true all the same! Well thats the story in a nut-shell so to speak!......

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Re: Did you say nutshell?	Dave P.	22:34:37 04/17/05 Sun