Framed Portrait Photograph of Arthur Jones. Overall size inc...

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Framed Portrait Photograph of Arthur Jones. Overall size including frame 66cm x 56cm. This is his story: "Trying to steer my Sherman tank through the debris of Caen in the distance I could see a naked woman standing in the rubble. As I approached nearer I saw a window model that some joker had placed there. So this is war. Entering the town of Lievin my tank was disabled by a mechanical fault. Ian Cohen , my comrade, was detailed to stay with me. ” We will send a recovery vehicle back for you ” said the sergeant as my unit carried on. Days passed and no one returned. A French family, Mama Steffens and her six children took pity on us and offered us hospitality. How she found the space and the food I will never know. Ian said,” Let’s do something and get some rations “, so we borrowed the doctors car from next door, he was allowed petrol. Ian had acquired an officers coat and beret from I don’t know where, put them on and said lets drive to Arras. Just before Arras we ran into a military police check point and impersonating an officer meant that charges loomed ! ” My jeep has broken down and I have commandered this vehicle. I have urgent business in Arras ” said Ian . A salute and carry on from the MP. ” We drive round to the town major’s office. Ian tells a tale of how we had been left without rations and suffered by the side of the road and gets a stamp chitty for provisions for two. He comes back to the car and puts a nought by the 2 making 20. Round to the RASC resupply depot, and we cram provisions for 20 personnel into the car. We have a job to shut the doors, I say “How are we going to get through the MPs again”. ” Stop about a mile before” Ian tells me. So I do. ” Wait for a convoy to come through and when you get the chance nip between two vehicles and stick the bonnet under the tail board”. I see my chance – talk about modern tailgating! The DRs (despatch riders) are waving through the 3-tonners as fast as possible, we are out and gone before anyone can stop us. Needless to say, my French friends and the doctor’s family, were over the moon. We felt we had repaid so much that they had given to us".

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