221632 Percy John Wraight British Army West Kent Regiment from:Kemsing, Kent My father, Percy Wraight, enlisted in 1937 underage and being found out re-enlisted under the name Michael Victor Brown serving in the Middle East under that name.
He was involved in several battles against Rommel's troops and wounded at Mersa Matruh 26 June 1942 and again at the first battle of El Alemein in July 1942, he sustained shrapnel wounds to front and back and was told that he died on the operating table but the doctor was able to bring him back.
Like a lot of veterans he seldom talked about his involvement but I do remember him mentioning the extreme thirst his group suffered while escaping from the Germans at one point they were discovered by advancing Afrika Corps but were released after being given some water to survive because the enemy did not want the bother of prisoners.
I still have his army pay book which is under the name M.V. Brown (scratched out at the end of the war and re done under Wraight)
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