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The only man I wanted to marry, my only true love Jimmy Jones, was a navigator on Halifaxes and was taken...
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I have four sisters and one brother Kathleen, Margaret, Letty, Annie and Jack. My mum and dad were called...
My father Robert Hindle was an engineer making parts for Tanks, he was a planer and he worked in a factory...
We used to push little wagons up to a deep thing, I forget what they call it, and we used to put...
My father was a Royal Engineer stationed in India and Burma and my mother was a Nursery Nurse. Also, I...
The civilian police had phoned to say that they thought an HMS girl was seen going into a local taxi...
Amongst them 2 stuffed toy pandas, kimono dressing gowns also lots of fruit such as peaches, bananas and...
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I also remember our neighbour Mr Jack he had been a Japanese POW and was unrecognisable when he came back:...
But, apparently, this bomb fell on Bedford Street. Whether that was the same time as the Odeon was bombed,...
I left school just before my 14th birthday and I started work at Williamson's factory at Lune Mills...
German planes also flew over a lot, they were looking for the ammunitions factory, "Drigg," and the...
My father James Kirtley was the forman, my mother Maretta worked on the land, and I had a younger brother...
My Granny was very fortunate as all her three sons came home safely, but as they were not supposed to tell...
We were all taken prisoner to Japan the Southern Island — I was there nearly 4 years... I was down...
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