Ken Welch
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Oh, you don't have to do that.
These didn't even offer...
Ken, you were a young boy.
Do you remember the war starting?
I was sitting on a chair in my grandmother's kitchen.
I think it was a Sunday morning and 11 o'clock and I heard the Chamberlain declare war with Germany.
Oh yes, he worked in a quarry taking out big lumps of granite for making monuments and stuff like that.
And then the war came along and somehow he got into this auxiliary unit business.
No, I didn't know what was happening.
No, I didn't know where he was going.
All I knew was he would come home with a Tommy gun and bits and pieces like that.
I was 16 then, but I was only a month off 17.
So I said to him a bit, why can't I have a go at that?
So they arranged for me to join.
I put my age on for a year.
So your dad let you join the unit?