The North African Deployment of Don Peckham
Subject: Donald Peckham
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When my Dad moved in with us, I was sorting through some papers and was about to throw away an old notebook. Leafing through it, I found 2 treasured items. First, I found a list of every place my dad visited or passed through during his service in the Royal Corps of Signals from July 1942 until December 1945, but I thought you might be more interested in the second item - this narrative written by my Dad on his travels at the end of 1942 from basic training in Thirsk to Port Tewfik in Egypt on the Queen Mary.
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