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.
A Manchester Guardian reader whose son, who has spent five years in the Middle and Far East and who is currently stationed at a transit camp in Egypt awaiting demob, comments on the repercussions of next month's Victory Parade in London:
[Quotes letter from son] “We are now at this place, which could more properly be called a ‘dump’. After 5.5 years overseas I have never seen anything like it – even in Burma – the food and service are frightful, whilst ordinary facilities don’t even exist. It seems very much in the air at present at to when we are likely to get away. We were told by one of the staff that we would have to be here for at least three weeks as the ‘victory parade’ personnel must have priority! It seems as though the question of our release is a minor detail and that we have served in the Territorials and right through the war all over the world for nothing.”
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