Danny - rest assured I'm on at friends, colleagues etc all the time to hoover up any stories their relatives may have!
Your story about your 'march' in Brazil contrasts so wonderfully with the official version. That's why the history of the 'ordinary Joe' is so important!
I recall Spike Milligan noted that during the desert campaign Churchill said in his history, "We moved xx Division from A to B". Simple eh?
Milligan goes on to describe that a move of some 15 miles was a total and utter shambles with no-one knowing what they were doing and it being a complete balls up which ended up with them going back to whence they came (and more seriously, incurring casualties from mortars).
That's real history!
Edited because I'm a proud bugger......
