Nothing prepares a man for war and Private Charles Waite, of the Queen.s Royal Regiment, was ill-prepared when his convoy took a wrong turn near Abbeville and met 400 German soldiers and half a dozen tanks. He lost his freedom that day in May 1940 and did not regain it again uni…
Nothing prepares a man for war and Private Charles Waite, of the Queen's Royal Regiment, was ill-prepared when his convoy took a wrong turning near Abbeville and met 400 German soldiers and half a dozen tanks. "The day I was captured, I had a rifle but no ammunition." He lost hi…
Nothing prepares a man for war and Private Charles Waite, of the 2/7th Queen's Royal Regiment, was certainly ill-prepared when his convoy carrying supplies of petrol and ammunition on its way to Dunkirk took a wrong turning near Abbeville. They met half a dozen German tanks on t…