L/C Harold Frederick William "Dick" Farrow
British Army 1st Battalion The Royal Norfolks
from:Ipswich
Harold Farrow was in The Royal Norfolk's 1st Battalion, S Company. He has told us, his 5 sons, many stories about when he was in the war and after. We didn't know when to believe him or not as he seems to have been near or where the action was when watching any war film or documentary on WW2! It was not until just lately that I realised there were many truths in his stories but like all of us we tend to exaggerated some times but in Harold's case it wasn't exaggeration, it was probably just like he said, the horror, the injustice and many laughs and of course the joy of coming though it.
I have many photos from the time and also he had in his possession a copy of No. 22 of "The Yellow Flash" the Official Journal of the 1st Bn. The Royal Norfolk Regt., dated May 1947. In this journal it has an entry about him and two of his friends from S Company getting demobbed together. They were known as The Three Musketeers and amazingly they all joined the army together and all served their time in S Company. The other two people mentioned were Pte Guidotti and L/C Sidell.
I have seen another article on this website which I can't seem to find now, where it mentions The Three MustGetBeers and I believe this to be referring to the same three people except in the other article it had L/C Farrow(my Dad Harold), Pte Henry John Guidotti and Cpl Plinstone, this was from the NAAFI news. I don't know if the names have got mixed up or not but my dad said it was definitely L/C Sidell in his threesome and he cannot remember a Cpl. Plinstone.
I have some pictures of my father and his friends n and after the war that I can share with you if anyone wants to have a look, these are a bit blurry but with a bit of computer photo edit they could be made to look better.
