Don Cutler

Episode 5

Don Cutler’s National Service was deferred for two years because of his apprenticeship, he was conscripted in 1958. After his initial training Don joined the Royal Hampshire Regiment in Winchester, an infantry battalion which later became the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment. Don was posted to Germany, travelling over in a flat bottom troop ship which had been sunk three times during the war and re-floated. Before he was demobbed Don spent his final few weeks of service on the North Sea, learning about civil defence.

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