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Rodney Angell
Another autobiography? Not likely! Rather, a collection of some memories from my childhood days which were lived through the early years of depression, then learning to accept a boyhood lived withi...mehr sehenAnother autobiography? Not likely! Rather, a collection of some memories from my childhood days which were lived through the early years of depression, then learning to accept a boyhood lived within the confines and shortages of war for six long years, finally followed by forty years in uniform.
Every small boy has dreams of what he would like to be when he grows to be a man, and I was no exception save that I had two visions of my future place in the grown up world, and whenever anyone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, my reply was always the same “I want to be a soldier wearing a black fur hat outside the King’s palace, or a Fireman who drives a big red Fire Engine with a loud bell on it!”
As fate had it, I was very fortunate in achieving not one, but both ambitions in my manhood, as a Grenadier Guardsman, and a Firefighter hence my title of ‘TWICE THE MAN’
When I retired finally from the Fire and Rescue Service, I became active in another direction for a further thirty years, becoming involved in a variety of exciting and rewarding ventures, but that will have to be the stuff of another book, and I wonder if I would be treading on the toes of a certain Mr Harry Lime, if I were to entitle that result “A THIRD MAN”?........time will tell…weniger sehen