Well I was not happy about this going on behind my back and sorry to say I lost my cool and hit him and more then once ,well the girl was crying my mate was trying to stop me,and as luck would have it a police car came along,next thing was I was fighting them all the chap and the police.
In the end I was over powered and taken to the nick ,or police station as we now call it.
They phoned up my unit and told them I was being held overnight and would be taken to court in the morning .
Well as you know the court house then was in the town hall, so in the morning I was taken to the cells below the town hall and locked up till it came my turn to go into the court house, Many years later as you know the cells were open to the public to go round and in one of the cells they could see my name which I put on the wall
still there today.(VIC MATCHAM WAS HERE and it is dated.
Anyway back to my story ,it came to my turn to go up a staircase under the floor leading into the court house .
The charge was read out ,it was fighting and hitting a person.The Army had send a officer along to the hearing ,and the court asked him for a report about my army service.
Must say that report was the only thing that stopped me being locked away.
So I was bound over for 1year and told to stay away from both the girl and the man she was with.
The officer turned to court and said to the court "That will not happen as we will make certain Matcham stays in the camp till the new regiment moves on.
Was this going to be the end of the matter
