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As a very young child an army set up camp on the farm where I was living and I can remember queuing...
I lived in Salisbury during the war and I remember seeing some of the VIPs who visited, people like King...
Laurencekirk was between three aerodromes - Edzell, Fordoun and Montrose....
Potatoes were tilled in every available patch to feed the nation... Pigs were fed boiled potatoes....
We had an allowance of good food for the nurseries and all the children were well fed... Later in the war...
My cousin Bobby was shouting at her 鈥淢other, for goodness sake would you hurry up!.. She says...
Bombs,books and badges...
I remember the School Clinic in Ivory Place being bombed when several people were killed, including 3...
My father was in the Navy and was also stationed there, in charge of the Prisoners of War....
During the war my mother would take me to my grandparents in Wales. We would go there travelling on the...
In 1939 I had just moved to a junior school next to the railway station at Ashford, Kent. After war had...
I was living in Cinque Ports Avenue in Hythe with my Mum, stepfather who was in the airforce and two...
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My mother's sister, Auntie Nora worked in an ammunitions factory and claimed that she could tell the...
Sheltering in Leicester "We didn't have Anderson shelters, we didn't go underground....
I remember evacuees came from London, but many didn't like leaving their families and after a while...
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