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There are times to let sleeping dogs lay.

Records are not the Ten Commandments. Just a quick run through sees him listed as 33 years old when he was 23 and when his family wrote for his medals they did not credit him with an African Star which he quite clearly was entitled to. No doubt numerous other minor errors as there are in all records, military or civil. I don't think Harold was too bright as still a Private after 4 years of service and a record sheet a regular litany of charges and punishments. I suspect he spent a lot of time washing trucks and peeling potatoes that don't appear on his record.

My point is it is a family history, his name is scratched on the truck glovebox. They just added 1 and 1 and came up with 3 to assume the truck was the accident vehicle. As a driver he probably had 100 different vehicles during his service. Old mate quite clearly was the culprit in whatever vehicle and that is the core of the story that really matters.

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