Practical Caravan

WEYMOUTH AT WAR!

OUR CARAVAN HAS allowed us to visit some remarkable places, but when we bought our first van a decade or so ago, I didn’t envisage the 1940s being one of those destinations.

Fast-forward to a 1967 Bailey Maestro that Charlie (11) and I bought on eBay, where we began chatting about the WWII project he was studying at school and the part our family played during this far-reaching conflict.

When the caravan was ready to tour, we followed the journey my father and Charlie’s great-grandfather took from a camp in Kent to

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