David Holbrook
Page from a letter to his parents
Meanwood Park, Leeds, [Summer 1944]
From MS Add. 9987

Transcript:

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The air was torn with red tracer. I managed with a certain amount of quick movement to get into a tank which came along & get out of it. The Germans were killed, also our two chaps who had escaped from them, and the Colonel & yours truly survived!

Then one afternoon Squadron leader had ordered me to contact the Brigadier or the Colonel at a certain crossroads. I was to take Edward M F’s tank (he’s the chap who stutters.) As I was climbing on his tank an anti tank shot hit the old gnome’s tank & it blew up (He got away you remember.) Humphrey decided to sit in the open & fight it out with this gun with Sqn H.Q. (it later needed 2 Battalions