Memories of John Harris and Charles Boulard

John Harris was in the Royal Marine. He fought and worked in cafes. He was trained in Devon. He joined on 15th February 1940. He was assigned to mobile base naval defense organization. He was sent to Egypt and then Crete, which was a strategic island. Then he went back to Egypt to regroup and restock. Then he went to South Africa and Ceylon near India. His group was disbanded, so he was sent back home to retrain in 1944. He spent the remainder of the war in a naval base in Scotland, Scapa Flow.

Charles Boulard was French. He worked in a café in Paris as he was too young to fight. He had to sneak into Paris on a truck to meet his sister as Nazis had occupied Paris. He served high-ranking German officers and, at the same time, helped starving people in Paris. He also served a photographer who gave him photos of French resistance fighters and American troops marching into Paris. He also witnessed the Germans leaving.