6 FIELD PARK SQDN 22 FIELD SQDN - WORKSHOP TROOP
'ROAD UP THE FLEA'
As Remembered By Bert Martin
Our camp was about 3 miles away from The Flea and being Royal
Engineers our officers thought it a good idea for our plant troop to build
a road up to the top of the Flea. Not thinking that was enough – they
had the road blown up just so the SAPPERS could repair it again. This took
a few months and, so not to let the Workshop troop get away with no part in
building the road, I was told to make a pair of brass scissors for the opening
ceremony by a high ranking officer. That being done, the scissors were taken
to a local village to be engraved, then back to our camp for the prisoners
in the nick to polish. Our carpenter, Frank Barrett, made a beautiful oak
box for the scissors to be presented in.
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The best part of the story is that at the ceremony the scissors would not cut the minetape as the prisoners had polished the sharp cutting edges off, so the tape was torn in half!