The wartime secrets of Sutton Hoo

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: March 23, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

I thought that, in the circumstances, I would have to dedicate this column to the outbreak of war. Not the current war, since there will be plenty of that on other pages, but to the outbreak of the Second World War. I am not going to offer any great historical parallels but simply attempt to unravel a small mystery raised by an elderly reader.

This week I received a letter from George Price who explained that in 1939 he was stationed in Woodbridge, Suffolk, with the First Battalion of the Liverpool Scottish. The east coast had been militarised and was being used for exercises, but Price was ...

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