Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Harry Perkins

British Army 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters

from:Spondon

Harry Perkins

Harry Perkins left his reserved occupation and joined up at Normanton Baracks in Derby. He landed in Tunisia as part of Operation Torch and saw off Rommell and The Afrika Corps. He then took part in the landing at Salerno and fought up through Italy. He was captured by the Germans and put to hard labour in a cement plant. Advancing Allied troops over ran the plant and he made his way back to his unit. He continued the fight to free Italy and finished his war in Austria, facing off the Russian Army that had swept through Hungary.



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