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Marlborough, Wiltshire Travel Destinations

editor — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 16:40:00 +0000

My dormitory prefect was Edmonds and once, after he had beaten me (unfairly as I thought), his bed and bedding were completely missing the following night. Naturally, I knew that he would suspect me, so I had taken elaborate precautions to have nothing whatever to do with it, and had merely suggested the different steps to be taken for the project to be carried out successfully. It had to be carefully organised so that everybody had an equal share in it (except me, of course) so that no one person could be victimised. Edmonds did not beat me again after

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Marlborough, Wiltshire Map Tourist Attractions

editor — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:52:00 +0000

I used to take the field days very seriously, and even wore two pairs of spectacles so that I could shoot off my blank cartridges more accurately at the ‘enemy’. One of the attractions of the first camp was a mock dogfight between two aircraft. The wings were doped with stuff that made them semi-transparent. The other demonstration that excited me was shooting off mortar shells at an ‘enemy’ trench (unmanned). The masters were a mixed lot, but there was one man called Adams, the housemaster in the junior ‘A’ House, whom I admired enormously. He was severe, because it

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