Part Two----On the morning of April 21st the fun started.First of all we heard a lot of machine-gun fire not very far away.Our boys were apparently getting out of the passes with Jerry on their tails.Enemy aircraft were overhead and at about 10am our artillery put up a barrage and started shelling the roads that lead up into the passes. At first jerrys shells screamed overhead and landed a fair distance away.but later on things got a bit hotter and he landed some of them almost on our trench line.All day a terrific bombardment was kept by both sides and at times the screaming shells were nerve-racking especially when we could hear one coming and we knew it would land near the shallow trench in which we were lying .Just on dark the real excitement started ,because the germans had broken through the passes.We could see them running along the road across the flat We knew it would only be a matter of time before he would be attacking our positions with tanks and infantry..How thankful we were when it became dark and we were given our orders to leave.We travelled all night to our new position at Molas about 10 miles south of Lamea- it looked so good we felt sure we could hold our own. It was April the 22nd we were all in our positions ready for what might come, when we received the greatest blow and disappointment . Our commander Captain Hastie.said orders had come through that the whole of Her Majesty,s forces were to evacuate Greece.We were to hold the enemy till the 25th. Our spirits dropped as we knew that a running fight was the hardest of all.By the time we had taken up our positions Jerry was already in possession of Lamas . His planes kept flying over our trenches, raking them with machine gun fire and trying to bomb our camouflaged artillery out of existence The days of the 22nd and 23 are the most nerve raking Ive ever experienced All night our artillery hurled shells at Jerry And the enemy returned the fire as we lay shivering in our trenches.At 4 pm on the afternoon april 24th our days of non action were over. Jerry started the attack as he usually did--an assault with heavytanks They were thundering down the road towards us with infantry ,motorbikesand troop carriers behind them.He threw about 18 big tanks into the onslaught but none got very far When they got within range our artillery blew them up one after another. Perhaps one will never again see such a sight. As each tank was hit ,it burst into flames and its ammunition exploded. The Germans made for the rugged hills and out flanked our boys and cut them off. C company fared the worst .They couldnt see the enemy until they were surrounded.Out of C company s 125 men only about 20 got away.The rest were either killed.wounded.or taken prisoner. A company were in a bad way as well and were cut off. They gallently fought their way back with hand grenades and Bayonets. When every man has a job to do the horrors are not noticed. As soon as darkness fell we calmly evacuated .We sneaked down to the road past one of the burning tanks.and marched a mile up the road to where transport was waiting .