| Index | Recent Threads | Unanswered Threads | Who's Active | Guidelines | Search |
 |
World Community Grid Forums
Category: Community
Forum: Chat Room
Thread: On this Day |
| No member browsing this thread |
|
Thread Status: Locked Total posts in this thread: 716
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Wednesday, 20th June 1945
My radio set was not working very well. I took off the back and inspected the interior. Inside there were a few thermionic valves, many wires and a huge potentiometer with several tappings marked in voltages; also a lot of dust, which I blew, or brushed, away. |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Saturday, 23rd June 1945
15th Scottish Division Opera House now presented a grand performance of music from the best of classical operas, by the Schwerin Opera Company. I, in the front stalls again, noticed that the sopranos and contraltos were singing to the gallery. This was where the civilians were. The tenors, baritones and basses were singing to us in the stalls. The programme is now in my scrapbook . |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Wednesday, 27th June 1945
The radio was still not working, so I took it to an electrical shop in the local shopping centre. I was mobbed by local people anxiously enquiring about the impending arrival of the Russians. I left the radio at the shop, saying I would call back for it in a week or two. I still do not know whether or not this this assured the local people, but they certainly calmed down. I never saw that radio again. |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Thursday, 28th June 1945
----------------------------------------Will Farmer had made the most of his new leisure to join the 15th Scottish Division Boat Club. He invited me to join him, so I left my secretary to do whatever work came in during the morning. This time we were fortunate to be first in the queue for a Bermuda rigged skiff, so we taught each other the rules of yachting and helmsmanship and soon became practised fair weather helmsmen. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 24, 2009 9:40:33 AM] |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Saturday, 30th June 1945
15th Scottish Division Opera House now presented its final performance as the division's Opera Company. Nobody but us was supposed to know that was the final performance for us, but word seems to have leaked out and the civilians were panicking. |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Monday, 2nd July, 1945
----------------------------------------We also had a garrison theatre. There was a poster announcing a variety performance, headed by “Issy Bow”. This was, no doubt, a pseudonym for a comedian modelling himself on one not favoured with Jewish servicemen, as he had neither the subtlety of Max Miller, nor the sympathetic mien of the Irish comedians. Later, in the queue for the cookhouse, Cpl. Farrier turned to me, saying, “Do you know Izzy Bonn is on in the Garrison Theatre?” I took the bait. “Oh no, he isn’t”. “Bet you a shilling he is.” “O.K., you’re on. Now come outside and see the poster.” “Don’t need to, it’s wrong – I have a correction here, see!” From his map pocket, he took a dispatch form, with what, I was expected to assume, was a correct version of the bill-head. The drivers looked on, mildly interested; while Farrier said, “Now I expect a shilling from you.” To howls of laughter from the stretcher bearers, and sheepish grins from the drivers, I replied, “That’s alright, there’s no harm in expecting.” [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 2, 2009 4:24:50 PM] |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Monday, 23rd July 1945
The Russians were ready to take over. Most of the company were returning to Rohlstorf and presumably the rest of the division was leaving for Lauenberg or Bad Segerberg. The remains of the Flying Squad would hold the fort for a day or two, with a skeleton cook house. Unfortunately, my mug was missing, so I liberated a stein as a substitute. |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Tuesday, 24th July 1945
I packed my office and my kit; joined the C.O. the last of the cooks, and Henry Dorfman who drove us in the last truck, the fifteen hundredweight, back to Rohlstorf. The Officers had arranged an amateur concert and I acted as dresser to the officer to whom I had given the handcuffs. His black clothing had numerous strands of black cotton attached and one pocket held those handcuffs. Now I assisted him in giving a display of legerdemain and escapism to the unit. |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Wednesday, 25th July 1945
----------------------------------------Well, for some of us, back in Rohlstorf, the war was over now, but not for the Germans in Schwerin who were panicking at the thought of what Ivan would do to them in revenge for their actions in the East. One of the Baron’s horses had broken a leg, and I stood by the officer who had to administer the coup de grace. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 25, 2009 9:06:10 AM] |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Thursday, 26th July 1945
We found we had been “reinforced” with troops of the Eighth Army from Italy. Why did we need reinforcements? I had an easy job and, apart from maintaining morale, which was now satisfactory, there was no work for the rest of the company to do. |
||
|
|
|