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9th Lancers Band - Detmold -Germany in 1952
written by william denis haydock
 One memory of 1952 which I shall always remember occurred on Christmas Eve.At the time I drank very little alcohol but on this day I drank whisky, a drink forbidden to other ranks. I drunkenly closed the door to one of the rooms but in doing so my hand and wrist went through the glass part cutting through the vein.Blood gushed everywhere and along the stairs, across the road on my way to the MI room. I thought that I was going to die being in a drunken stupor.I had 12 stitches inserted in my wrist which still show the marks today.I somehow remember playing piano in the Corporal's Mess with one hand, the left,with a little ensemble.Now this is where time plays a trick with my memory.The Corporal's Mess gig must have been on Boxing Day.I certainly learned a lesson that Christmas about the dangers of drink when one is not used to it.I was only 18 at the time and definitely not streetwise. |
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