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  Posted by creefulofcoals (U3902028) on Wednesday, 3rd May 2006

  As a child I recall lying in my bed as the rest of my family - mother, father, granddad - huddled round the wireless downstairs, listening to the nine o'clock news
  
  Around 1942 i heard the announcer - I think his name was Alvar Liddell - reading an account of the war in the desert with German Tiger tanks and the British 8th Army, led by Rommel and Montgomery respectively.
  
  I decided to make up a poem in my head - I was an eight year old boy - and it began:
  
  'Montgomery and Rommell were on the battle field
  they had fought for hours and hours but not one of them would yield
  The 8th were driving gallantly - the Tiger tanks were slow
  but Montgomery was driving forward and he let the Germans know ...'
  
  Suffice it to say that the poem went on to become something of a saga which I kept in my head cos it wasn't the done thing for an 8 year old boy to write cissie poetry.
  
  I wondered if anyone had other memories of those wartime radio announcers?

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