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My father and uncle went into the army and my aunt was given a job in the munitions factory near us, so...
My father was musical director of Southampton Icerink and had his own dance band, my mother taught piano...
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He arranged for volunteers from BGS to pick potatoes on his farm and some twenty of us duly cycled over to...
We left on the Ford Motor Company Jetty, Dagenham on the River Thames. My brothers and I handed up at...
HMS 鈥淒auntless鈥 was an old cruiser which had been spared from the breaker's yard to provide...
Now after the Declaration of War we are to be separated, my brother John and I to be evacuated with our...
We had been away on holiday at Barmouth for three weeks, that is my Dad and Mum, my brother who could only...
I remember the Drill Hall, the lemonade and cakes and the official welcome by the Mayor of Rhayader and the...
We used to go on holiday with tents and on one occasion, the first time in 1944, we, I and a friend...
Mother and my sister slepy over night at the factory managers house; dad and I slept on the floor of his...
Ivor was first to comment on them, asking Joe whether he had been fighting... Mrs. Foulkes was true to her...
The Army had placed anti aircraft guns on the hills of course bombers came over Sheffield even on their way...
Evacuees started arriving, as Cheltenham was considered a fairly safe area, and our school had to share its...
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