During the War I attended Four Dwellings School Quinton at the end of the Christmas Term we had our...
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I started walking when a motorist drew up and gave me a lift, just to Duffield — no further because...
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In 1942/43 I was stationed in Kent and the local farms needed Land Army Girls... We only had 1 truck si I...
On our way to school in the early summer of 1944, I was eleven years old, I called for my friend Chris...
In 1940 my mother, brother and myself moved from Dover to Sidcup to escape shelling, leaving my father...
I was an Air Raid Warden in Arnold, a suburb of Nottingham, from early 1939... The fields were full of cows...
I lived on Southy Hill, when the land mine was dropped by parachute... I have also stayed in the London...
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They came for my mother because she was involved in the partisans and there were spies in the village. In...
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GOT LOUDER THEN ABOVE ME, VERY LOW A DORNIER "FLYING PENCIL". AS I LOOKED UP I SAW GERMAN AIRCREW...
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