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A selection of letters written home by a private soldier who offered in Iraq, Palestine and other parts of the center East through the Second World War. Anthony Rawson was born in October 1919 and was raised in the family home in Watford. When warfare broke out in 1939 he was working as a gas fitter for the Watford and St. Albans Gas Company. He joined the army in June 1940 but because of his poor eyesight he was not classed as a combatant. Instead he became a fitter, later a vehicle mechanic in what was then the Royal Military Ordnance Corps and put in the next 5 years in the Middle East. From the many bases where he was stationed in Iraq, Persia, Syria, Lebanon and lastly Palestine, Tony Rawson published home, virtually every week, to his mother in Watford about the army, the war, the people he met, the items he did, his hopes and ambitions for his post-war life. This sound book is a selection of those letters. Paul Panting has presented in many BBC Radio Episode takes on and has documented Daniel Tammet's Created over a Blue Day for Reserve of the Week. He's a regular reader of sound books, like the Anthony Horowitz Vitality of Five series for Macmillan and Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's Barnaby Grimes series for Random House. He provides voices for most animation series including Chugginton for the BBC and Franny's Feet for Channel 5. Paul's television looks include DCI Mumford in Silent See as well as roles in such series as Lewis, Holby Blue, East Enders, Casualty and The Charge. Track record Information: the benefits and historical notes are written and read by Alan Sophistication. Alan began his broadcasting profession with the Uk Forces Network (BFN) Cologne in 1956. During his 38 years with the Uk Forces Broadcasting Service, he proved helpful in Aden, Belize, Cyprus, Germany, Hong Kong and London. His previous broadcast was from the beaches at Arromanche through the 1994 celebrations of D-Day. He's the archivist and historian for BFBS and has written three literature on the subject of Forces Broadcasting.