211617 Major Walter Bennett Wignall British Army Royal Engineers from:Mitcham My father, Walter Wignall was called up in December 1939. He first of all was in France, then as the engineer on the RAF station at Kirton in Lindsay, Lincs. At the beginning of 1942 he sailed in a convoy round Africa & was given a posting with the 10th army. A desert convoy to Baghdad, then Persian Gulf, Bombay, Quetta on to Zahedan. Here he was the engineer on the strategic road to Russia. He was with Paiforce. In Jan 1943 he was posted to Baghdad then in summer 1944 to Aleppo & Beirut. I am not sure when he was made a major but it was whilst with Paiforce, probably early 1943.
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