[…] you could only deal if you bribed everybody, but they were very honest about it, once you paid them they remained loyal to you, and so every Customs Officer, the Station Master, everybody had a monthly salary from my father. Because otherwise, you see, the daily newspapers from Hungary, Germany, En[…]
[…]iewer Alan Lawson, 23 October 1987.ALAN LAWSON: Harry where and when where you born?HARRY MILLER: 1904, November the 25th 1904.ALAN LAWSON: What kind of schooling did you receive?HARRY MILLER: I was born in London, by the way. My schooling was a Catholic Church school, we were Catholics our fa[…]
[…] simply to clear the air and set the record straight. And we talked to Murray Sanders whom I liked enormously and he agreed that he had been the officer who acted on behalf of General Macarthur who was C in C in Japan – God, in occupied Japan! Sanders had been a Colonel, sorry, a Major at […]
Interviewer 0:00 This is an interview with Mike Aldridge and is the property of the History Project for BECTU. The date today is the 15th of September 1997. And, Mike,can I ask you where and when you were born?Michael Aldridge 0:20 I was born in 1941 in East London and […]
[…]I could direct the crew , but obviously for international reasons. They wanted it in English. It was end of the era when I think you know, the German officer on the bridge was able to scream Achtung fires acht grun You know, now they, the the French officers say I attention le droit they actually sp[…]
[…]was there for some months. And almost as soon as I went back into training I broke an ankle on an obstacle course so I was clearly not very good officer material. And in fact failed miserably and became, I remember a great argument with, I don't like explosions much and someone threw a thunderf[…]
[…]So I was sent to a training camp at Watchet in Somerset and it was there that I met John Cox who was also on the same course, though he was a Warrant officer [24.11] and I was just an ordinary Private, a Gunner. I went through the course there and just before Christmas in 1939 we were sent to Woolwi[…]
