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Over in Belgium where my Uncle Donald, was Chaplain to the British Embassy and Vicar of Christ Church in...
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Mark came to Whitehaven with a large number of children accompanied by their teachers, one of whom was a...
It was after a particularly bad day decoying wood pigeons that I decided I wanted a twelve bore and...
There was plenty of open country behind Brighton and we would hear the machine gun or cannon fire as the...
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I was born in 1936, the youngest of four children, in the City of Wakefield, and my earliest memory of the...
Again I think it's quite illustrative that I remember one morning, it would be a Saturday morning, I...
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