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INTERVIEW WITH
SIR REGINALD GEORGE DALE

Corporal, aged 31, attached to the Royal Electrical
Mechanical Engineers of the 105th Infantry Brigade attached to the
British Third Division. He was a Corporal at the time and he was
married to Hilda Dale. They had no children at that time but
they were expecting one.

A couple of days before D-Day his wife told him that he
was going to be a father. They had been married for four years.
George had been in the army since the 20th February 1941 and had
been a despatch rider at the time of Dunkirk.

Before D-Day they were sealed in at a place called
"Whiteham" at Newhaven. On the 24th March the Dales were in an
air raid when the roof of their house collapsed and their home
was shattered. Hilda Dale had a head infury.

They had been hoping for a child, their first, so when she
had reason to believe that she was pregnant she visited the doctor,
who told her that it might have been the shock of the air raid.
But by early June she was quite sure that she was pregnant. When
George was told, she said to him ’’Well, I think it worked this
time”. He was quite furious. ’’This is a hell of a time I must
say”, he said.

He did not know the date of the invasion, In fact he was
under the impression that the Germans were about to invade England -
Thus he was concerned about his wife.

George was a Corporal and his chum was Ginger Connis
from Snaeth, Yorkshire. George kept his worries to himself; he
did not confide to his pal about his life. There were all sorts

DE WITT WALLACE , U. S. A . LILA BELL WALLACE , U. S A,
LUCIUS F. CRANE T .G.M. HARMAN, MANAGING DIRECTOR .