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I landed in Normandy in June 1944, a few days after D- Day. Whilst in battle in Holland, my wife received a...
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He got sick and came off the ship and went to the barracks in Portsmouth. I liked Portsmouth and went back...
After the war went back to work in the pits and open the gunners Club in Leven, with three army friends. My...
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We were near to Crystal Palace and they'd park vehicles there... I was sitting at the window writing a...
Families without children took in evacuees, and Grandma remembers seeing children from London being offered...
On reaching the age of 12, you could have ten days off from school for jobs on the land, my time off...
My father who started the war in the ARP, seeing some terrible things during the blitz before being called...
My father, William Albert Merrett was born in Bishops Cannings 5th March 1894... Their route then took them...
There, my father, Ivor Bush fell in love with a young girl, Maria Feger... At long last, with the help of a...
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I worked in the cotton mill- Eckersley Mill in Wigan- and after working all day you then had to take your...
In 1940 I was going down home one night and bombers came over Barlestone that night and were dropping bombs...
Grandmother and Adam and his Grandfather are sitting comfortably together when Adam begins to ask them some...
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