IT HAPPENED ON NORFOLK Events of 1944.

Duffy's Gen, Issue V, 24 February 1945, Page 6

IT HAPPENED ON NORFOLK Events of 1944 .

! '■ ■ > - . A- . .' / U// . Perhaps .it- is rather late to be - doing - it /noy/,, but we have been-going : over the happenings of the last "i 7 ’■ months on Norfolk and are . proud to ■ present some., of the outstanding 1-. events ox - i -9u.2j. © jpr. -.- bay bucu- .l.a.st Summer a transport driven ' was pulled up at .the- 7 side ;of ; .the road lighting a -cigarette .- when ■ lie noticed an attractive. island girl coming-, towards' mm* • “Too'bad we're' ' in a hurry,” said his companion “We . could have stopped or a talk with /this little piece» f ( ' ' <1 “Yes, 1 ' said' the driver “I have -

an urgent job to do or I’d wait”' '. with which ,he . let in' the clutch and moved. of f> as quickly as possibleo . One day in- late Summer the'. Met o orec as t. a fine day. with a - southeasterly breeze© The. day was cloudy at firs’G but afterwards cleared and was fine with a light- breeze, from' the- south east*- ’ • -

t About this time a pilot of a visi i'r-ing aircraft told' the Control I Officer,.he wished to take off. at 'B' I oclock- next morning, “I would J rather have' gone at six o’clock" he ■ said, “but I didn’t want to inconvenience you. or the Firecrew. The ■ Control-ifficer (the one with the ; pipe) .went .round with a dazed', ex-/.. ! pression for some, days/ afterwards# | , On. 1 one occasion the Marine Sect lot ; set out-, on .a- fishing expedition. and ] returned ■ with enough fish provide' ,a good meal for the Camp t ‘ Some of the Cid. Hands may remember a ...smallish cypher Waaf' who is no ' i longel- with us©- One cold' win try'- [• morning this young lady . was having ! .Ti? 11101 ? in. decipherings, signals I Tnere- s nothing wrong with the .. y x message s<) . she was heard ( to say ’kind -' I "kfy. chine S is all right. The only .urpubls is I am not - thinking too well , this- morning-,-” *” 1 ■”//”■: xhen u icre was the occasion during "the /Winter when, an erk took 1 some -'/

clothing along to the . Equipment Store on exchange day, and was quickly/ fit-j vOo. out in everything he wanted in lust the right size The E*A* said , y,hey had plenty of the things he, ■ • required; and there was no need to 1

wait until the next boat arrived© ■ £hrii?.; the crickqt season a membei of the Headquarters Team dropped aneasy, catch, off Ernie’s bowling* L-rnre .Laughed and remarked ' that even .u ie best- of fieldsmen, had'an off'dayonce in a while© , Pernaps someone ' can-, remember some, 'more outstanding happenings that snoulc go on the records if so, let, as hear about them* ■ . . # i