This is an entry in a year-long project to post-blog the demobilisation experience for British servicemen at the end of the Second World War. See here for an introduction to the project and here for a brief overview of the demobilisation process.
"Death waited nine months for 27-year-old Lieutenant John E Davies - in his home," reports the Daily Mail. "On his first day back to Osborne Street, Rochdale, from Italy, after four years' service abroad, his wife showed him two grenades - found in the suitcase he had sent home nine months before ...
Puzzled, he asked: 'how the devil did these come here?' As he examined them there was an explosion. He was killed; his wife and little daughter were injured. Death from misadventure was the verdict at the inquest yesterday. There was nothing to show how the grenades had gotten in the lieutenant's kit ...
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