2 Soldiers
Jack Hughes
Jack Hughes was born in Clapton, London on 11th March, 1920. He was called into the British Army in 1940 and was sent to Egypt to take part in the Desert War in 1941. He got wounded in the arm in El Alamein and went to a hospital in Alexandria. But Hughes recovered and went on to fight in Operation Lightfoot and Operation Supercharge. Hughes was also involved in the capture of Tunisia in on 11th May, 1943 and the war in Italy in 1944. He survived his time in the military and returned home to England in August 1945, where he worked as a commercial traveler until his retirement in 1985.
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Jack Hughes was born in Clapton, London on 11th March, 1920. He was called into the British Army in 1940 and was sent to Egypt to take part in the Desert War in 1941. He got wounded in the arm in El Alamein and went to a hospital in Alexandria. But Hughes recovered and went on to fight in Operation Lightfoot and Operation Supercharge. Hughes was also involved in the capture of Tunisia in on 11th May, 1943 and the war in Italy in 1944. He survived his time in the military and returned home to England in August 1945, where he worked as a commercial traveler until his retirement in 1985.
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George Hume
George Hume joined the British Army when World War 2 broke out. He was a bombardier in the Royal Artillery S/L Regiment, and he took part in the D-Day landings and the liberation of Paris. Additionally he was a member of the Allied forces that entered Germany and helped free the inmates of several Concentration Camps. After the war he repaired shoes, and in 1970 he started his own shoe-repairing business in Harlow. George Hume retired in 1984.
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