James Holland

And you've got new guys coming in all the time.

Coming in immediately.

Yeah, he's an officer.

So that means he's going to be commanding a troop.

Yeah.

And he's going to be commanding men, some of whom have already served for a couple of years in the desert in North Africa.

And here's this wet-behind-the-ears 19-year-old telling them what to do.

I mean, it's just, whichever way you look at it, it's an awkward situation, isn't it?

Yeah.

And what the crews are hoping is that this wet-behind-the-ears officer is going to learn pretty quickly and prove his worth.

Yeah.

Also thinking, oh, my God, not only am I going to be in danger, I've got to kind of somehow win over these men, some of whom are kind of double his age.

Yeah.

And make a fist of things whilst at the same time keeping alive as well.

And, you know, by this stage, people aren't coming from Lincolnshire and Sherwood area of Nottingham and so on.

They're coming from all over.

That time has passed.

That time has passed.

It's just whoever's around, they're processed out of the Royal Armoured Corps and training at Bovingdon.

Go to Sandhurst, go to Bovingdon.