Royal Artillery World War and Two (General)

by jimashton , Friday, November 04, 2011, 15:12 (4775 days ago) @ Barbara Lloyd

Barbara

My father was an officer with the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery, based at Woolwich Arsenal, and he met my mother who had moved from the Forest to live in Croydon. I was born 9 months after he returned from WW2. My mother did not wish to go to India which was his next posting so he resigned, or I would have been born in India and would have no doubt experienced a greatly different life.

I too would like to visit the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas and would prefer to travel by train. I have just checked that it is only 9 miles from Burton upon Trent railway station, would this be the closest railway station ?

Jim Ashton