WHAT A SOLDIER HAD TO DO TO GET A BATH IN 1942
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Interviewee name: JOHN ELLIOTT
Date of event: 1 Dec 1942
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John joined up as soon as he was old enough for military service and was keen to get into the war. Here he talks about the training, and about how he had to buy his weekly bath in Glasgow on a Saturday night - and the lengths he had to go to in order to be able to do so.
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