A Stretcher Bearer from El Alamein to Greece
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A Stretcher Bearer from El Alamein to Greece The Diary of George Hopper, King's Royal Rifle Corps, 1940-45 Author:Bob Hopper Language:English Format:Softcover Dimensions:6" x 9" Pages:166 Photos:profusely illustrated in color Publisher:Helion and Company ISBN:9781910777305 Item No. 9781910777305 ‘In his khaki shirt and shorts and with his curly blonde hair, he looked so much like a little boy. One leg was blown off at the knee leaving a ragged brown stump. He was lying on his stomach, his head resting in his arms and it was just as if in his agony and his loneliness he had just turned over and died.’ Excerpt ... El Alamein, 26 October, 1942.George Hopper, ex-bank clerk and now Rifleman with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, begins his superbly illustrated diary in May 1940 by telling of the early frustrations of military life. Eventually deployed to Egypt, George vividly recounts the horrendous conditions in the tro

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