On Friday 19th May Dick and Chotie met again.
Chotie was A.W.O.L.* for the first time.
They stayed for one night in the Haunch of Venison**, Salisbury, Wiltshire. They would not meet again until 1945.
“Come D day, the invasion to France was about to take place. He phoned me to break Camp and meet him in Salisbury. We stayed in an inn – separate rooms but he wanted us to be together before he went to France. It was very romantic, our young hearts breaking.” From ‘Chotie’s Story’ (unpublished autobiography).
*Absent without Leave
**Curiously the ‘Horsebox’ bar of the Haunch of Venison was reputedly used by Churchill and Eisenhower when they were planning D Day.
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