CHARITY WALK, LIVERPOOL TO LEEDS CANAL
Birgelen Veterans Charity Walk Completion Cert. Just a holding post to let you know we finished the walk in Leeds yesterday evening. Two…
Author: Michael Jackson
Born in Palestine many years ago, Educated? in Birmingham (West Midlands not Alabahma). Left home to join REME JLU in 1960, transferred to Intelligence Corps in 1962. Served with 13 Sigs Regt, 5 Inf Brigade HQ and Sigs Sqn, 9 Sigs Regt, Back to 13, E Troop, 14 Sigs Langeleben, roughly in that order up to March '84. Moved to Northern Ireland, to join my wife Josephine. Fell out with Brits over citizenship (bit like Spike Milligan -'cept I'm still alive - just!) and am now naturalized Irish. Have been with my present company, SOS Group, manufacturing school furniture since Sept '84.
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CHARITY WALK – LIVERPOOL TO LEEDS CANAL
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