Bob Bartlett joined the army (infantry) for the 2nd World War. At aged 20 years he was posted to England in the Infantry. From England he went to Greece, Crete, and Salonika. When they were being shifted from Greece to Crete, Bob remembers one particular incident. "We were wading out to the ship where we had to climb nets to get on board. Men were being shot all around. When I was halfway up, they cut the net. I fell back into the water with lots of other men. The ship was already overloaded they couldn't take any more". He was taken prisoner in Crete, then sent to a P.O.W camp in Austria. Always in trouble and a bad influence on the other prisoners, Bob was shifted to Bavaria where he befriended a family and studied the Hungarian's and learnt their language. One day he dressed in their clothes and simply walked out. "The guards didn't understand Hungarian and when they asked me any