Maurice Howard

Coming back you could not get the feel of it but I suppose it is like going into a dark corner not knowing what was there but as soon as the light went on you could see what was happening. That light was in your mind. You got the feel of where he was and what he was doing, what action he had been doing whilst you had been away. Once you had got that you kind of felt better. Funnily enough you were not worrying all the time. It seems funny. You would be sitting out there and Gerry's shells would be coming over. You would probably be coming over. You would probably be stationed among a lot of 25 pounders which at one time we were. Gerry came over, one plane, and he dropped anti-personnel bombs. He played havoc with our regiment and some of the gunners. He killed our Lottie Cullins our QM (Quarter Master). Things like that you don't realise. It happened and I took a dive under my carrier that night. They go off like little machine gunners. As they scatter shrapnel flying all over the place. I forgot who that was but like I said "blow this." When it came to batteries, shooting, firing at them you are amongst them it is not very nice. Where you are cramped for space you have got to go somewhere.