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in  Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire, and it was there that Kirby Laing  gave the name to the Thermalite block, a lightweight building brick developed from pulverised fuel ash which was and remains immensely successful in its field. I can only imagine that it was because of John Laing's connection with South Africa that my father spoke so highly of the spacial ability of the Zulus and their expertise in the rapidity of Bailey Bridge construction, which the Royal Engineers were tasked with during WWII and it was Kirby Laing who succeeded in convincing his father to release him to serve in the Royal Engineers during the last two years of the war. Following the consequences of the explosion of a land-mine in North Africa, whilst serving as a Royal Engineer in the Eigth Army, my father spent 6 months in a Hospital in Alexandia, Egypt, before then becoming involved with the allied push across the German defensive Gustav line towards Rome, after   a landing in Italy directly from North Africa, by way of his hands-on involvement with the building of the Bailey Bridges over which the likes of Richard Glover's Tank Commander father pushed towards ROME  following the capture of Monte Cassino, whilst my soul-mate Linnie’s father Ronald Arthur Yardley provided telecommunications support throughout the push to Rome and thence the North, until the German surrender.  …
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