We know MacColl went to Catterick at the start of WW2. There is no evidence that he stayed there. He was also supposedly "on the trot" - deserted.

What I find fascinating about MacColl at this time and I have yet to hear a definitive version - is that for this period he made no contact with anyone at all!!...........no-one I have ever heard of has ever come forward to say "I went to war with him" or "I sheltered him when he deserted"........and supposedly he "wrote a song a day" (Littlewood again).

However I have already been shouted by Dick Gaughan and others on another message board for daring to disucss this so that is the end of my contribution.

Regards,

Dave
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