My uncle

My Uncle Ronnie who, I was told, enlisted into the BRITISH army when he was 16 years old.  

He was on a troop-ship in the Mediterranean off the North African Coast when it was torpedoed.  He is supposed to have swum ashore.   

He 'fought' his way across north Africa, took part in the landings on Sicilly then Solerno onto Italy, was at Casino,  and went all the way up to Klagenfurt in Austria.  There he met and married one of the enemy, and brought her home with him to England..   

I can't vouch that all of this tale was true, or accurate, but he was one of 7 brothers who went away to war.