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Dads' Army Rings So True. My best friend was in the Girls’ Training Corps which seemed much more...
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One day Churchill came and he was looking and talking to all the boys round the hospital and the nurses. We...
He said: “Mam I want to come home, I'm with some awful dirty boys... This lady that they went to...
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My mum found the piece of paper my dad had given her with his address on....
I don't really remember too many details — my Mother had since filled me in with these, but one...
Like climbing Gresford Church Tower, to watch for any Germans that might come by parachute, or anything...
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