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Spr. Gordon Charles Adkin
British Army 3rd Field Squadron Royal Engineers
from:Derby
Gordon Adkin joined the Royal Engineers in 1941, sent to the Sowerby Bridge Barracks near Halifax for training. He was posted to Aberdeen in Scotland then on to Gourock, the Unit was the 3rd Field Squadron, Royal Engineers, 180 or so men and officers. We were aboard the Volumdon, a Danish Freighter, first sailed to the Gold Coast of Africa, (Sierra Leone) and the port of Freetown, from there to South Africa stopping at Durban and the Barracks at Pinetown.
This is an excerpt from Gordon’s own handwritten documentary of his WW2 Wartime experiences.