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Oh, very much so! cos my mum and dad had got two grown-up sons away so they were never going to let...
My English grandmother and her daughter and son-in-law had moved to Sydney before the War; I lived with...
The Postmistress was Mrs Fraser who had come in from Alford PO with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr and Mrs...
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She had a son called Thomas Richard, Thomas Richard Roberts, she never called him anything else but Thomas...
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Mr. George Outen was only five years old, the eldest of three and lived in Far East London with his large...
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After this Mum and Dad stayed on in the house, but myself and my two younger sisters were evacuated to...
I can remember sleeping in a cellar with my family in Islington the night before I was evacuated again to...
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