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When I was 18 I went off to the labour office in Pershore to register for the army but I was told...
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Uncle Charlie used to sing to me "If only we had some eggs, we could have some eggs and bacon, if only...
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My father thought it advisable that my mother, myself, younger brother and sister should join others going...
Whilst we were away from our parents during the Liverpool bombings, he arranged for us to be educated...
Michael heard this and asked Mum if we could raffle the rest of the bananas for a penny a ticket as they...
On the day war broke out we were walking up Manchester Road towards Oak Hill Park in Accrington, when this...
When the bombs had finished, we all went to the shop and found that a blast had ripped away the front...
I returned to England three years later on a neutral Portuguese ship which was lit up at night so that the...
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I was based in Washington during the Second World War as a schoolmaster for the Department of Defence....
Maisy dote and dosey dote and little bombs eatiney. We used to store the veg in the padded cell – it...
We were very defiant, my friends and I we were determined to go out to enjoy life,. I was coming home after...
We, my brother and I, ended up in Dawlish Devon right by the sea, there was barbed wire all along the beach...
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