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Italy I remember around the area I lived in there was a German submarine destroyed on the harbour, when the...
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When the war started I was 15 years old and working at a leather company called Sam Kay in Harvey Street......
It was 1st June 1941, I was seven years old, living in 15 Querns Road, St Martin's Hill, Canterbury...
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He called our smallest land girl and said, “I want you to go to the farm house and get me a bucket...
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