Thousands of people turned out to enjoy the tenth Hull Veterans' Weekend in East Park. Allison Coggan speaks to visitors including one of the last surviving Desert Rats. AS THE crackle of machine gun fire snapped across a cloudless sky, an old man sat quietly in his wheelchair. Feet away, in the middle of the showground at East Park, young lads sprawled out on the grass to feed bullets into the 30-calibre gun.They are too young to have witnessed the horrors of the Second World War, but ...
Reported by Hull Daily Mail 5 hours ago.
Thousands of people turned out to enjoy the tenth Hull Veterans' Weekend in East Park. Allison Coggan speaks to visitors including one of the last surviving Desert Rats. AS THE crackle of machine gun fire snapped across a cloudless sky, an old man sat quietly in his wheelchair. Feet away, in the middle of the showground at East Park, young lads sprawled out on the grass to feed bullets into the 30-calibre gun.They are too young to have witnessed the horrors of the Second World War, but ...
Reported by Hull Daily Mail 5 hours ago.