Charles Leggatt served in the British army during WW2. Charles visited us at Crestwood several times, and on our final visit with him we visited him in his home. Charles was a magnificent storyteller, and he shared with Crestwood students his numerous wartime exploits: the Home Guard, his memories of his brother Kenneth, the Battle of Britain, training with the Signal Corps, D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, fighting in Holland and Germany, and the liberation of Belsen.
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- 1. Charles Leggatt - Prewar Memories; Charles' Brother Kenneth
- 2. The Depression and School
- 3. The Start of the War
- 4. Learning to Fight in the Home Guard
- 5. England's fascist movement
- 6. Thoughts on Winston Churchill
- 7. The King's Royal Rifles
- 8. Gen. Hobart and the Funnies
- 9. The Armoured Division; Time in Wales
- 10. A model soldier
- 11. D Day Preparations
- 12. The Scheldt- Dressing as a Civvie
- 13. Holland and Belgium; Belsen
- 14. On meeting some Russian soldiers at a fuel depot in Germany
- 15. Postwar Convalescence
- 16. Coming to Canada; A Walk across England
