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WO. Phillip Cameron Routledge
British Army Black Watch
from:Lownes Ter, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne
My father, Phil Routledge, served with the Black Watch during the WW2.
He was a regimental boxer, that was until he met my mother in Perth, Scotland.
He was a WO at the Battle of El-Alemein. On the third day of the battle he was leading a charge in the desert, when a German 88mm shell landed under his feet. He survived with leg injuries but his men caught the shrapnel.
For the rest of the war he served in Officer Selection all over the Middle East. He died in 2001.