All sorts

During my time in the service I met Lots of funny characters: one fella was a Londoner and he didn’t realise that milk (as we know it) comes from a cow. He knew that cows had something to do with it, but he didn’t know that cows were milked, and was a bit shocked when he found out what he was drinking! I remember thinking how queer it was.

I also remember one fella who said what he missed more than anything was ‘jam’. He was very fond of jam.

The rest were a mix up of people, all sorts of people, from all sorts of places.

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Becky Barugh of the BBC Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Herbert Lewis and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

See more of Herbert's stories:

• A long sort of sock
• ”All genuine tickets please”
• I had to sit on the front of the tank
• ’Kitted out for civilian life’
• Shropshire during the war
• My only night in a shelter
• Riding a horse up the steps
• It seemed a bit of a silly thing to have to do
• The first of the V1’s
• There was always plenty of cheese
• We weren’t told…

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