1st Story from Colin.
One
Day in Gunner Prewett's Army Life
While in 57 Regt I was a driver on the MT Section we
had a lot of lads that lived in London and a lot of them wanted to go home nearly every night , so I used to do there duty
driver for them.
It came to one weekend and one of the lads wanted to go home so I did his duty driver for him ,at that time duty driver had
to be in the fire pickett hut so you had to take all your bedding and equipment with you .
I had just done the last run from Grays station at midnight and went to the pickett hut ,I got into bed and I suddenly
thought about erwigs which we had a lot of I got out of bed and pulled it from under the shelf as I had
experienced one dropping in my ear , I let go of the bed it had got those legs that fold under and it drpped on
my big toe and I couldn't move my foot some of the lads ran over and lifted the bed .
The lads said are you ok
Colin And I put my foot up on the bed and said look and as I rabbed my toe I had a fountain of blood ,so they had to
carry me up to medical centre , I was excused duties for two weeks I couldn't put a boot on so not thinking I put a
boot and a plimsole on an who should catch me was RSM Hillman and he was a big man he gave me a good talking to
and looked at me and said how the bloody hell did you do that I told him and he bursted out laughing and sent me back to my
billet . and that was just one of my days.
I have got one or two more to
tell
C Prewett
Will that be alright for one story
and it was true
till later Colin.
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