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Vauxhall Munitions Factory, Luton
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Those known to have served at Vauxhall Munitions Factory, Luton during the Second World War 1939-1945. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed,
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Want to know more about Vauxhall Munitions Factory, Luton? There are:-1 items tagged Vauxhall Munitions Factory, Luton available in our Library
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A/QMS. Eric Norman Pye 829th Tank Workshop Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers  My father Eric Pye was apprenticed as a locksmith. He joined the RAOC in Sept 1940 and transferred to REME on its formation in 1942.
He worked on a variety of Hobarts Funnies.
He was at Vauxhalls at Luton for some time and nearly drowned in their test tank whilst testing a DD tank.
He was mixed up with the Canadians and we frequently had a small convoy outside our house in North London.
Immediately before D Day he was in charge of the gang armouring the Caterpillar Bulldozers ready for the beaches. He went ashore with the Canadians on D Day plus 2.
Back in London we had a near miss from a V2 rocket about 10 doors away.
Apart from being at Belsen when it was burnt down by Crocodiles he seems to have had a reasonable time. He always said the only Europeans he got on with were the Germans!
On his return to civvy street he resumed a career in Ironmongery, He joined the AER, which meant that both of us were in REME as I did my National Service. The tradition continued as my son Robert joined Royal Signals as a boy soldier, retiring last year as a Lieutenant Colonel. His daughter is in the OCC at Liverpool. Dad passed away in September 1996 aged 84.
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