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Rodney details some of his work at the Chatham dockyard during the war.
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Rodney Newnham
Rodney Newham lives in the RNBT’s Pembroke House in Gillingham. In the war he worked as a boiler maker in the Chatham dockyard. He describes in detail the work and dangers of work at the time.
