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My father went into the RAF in 1933 and was sent to Oban to guard flying boats.
I was taken with my baby brother to Oban for about 6 months; I was about 2 years old.

Father was then sent to Egypt and we did not see him until 1944, I did not recognise him when he returned. I came home from school to see this stranger, 鈥渨ho is that?鈥� I asked and my mother said 鈥測our father鈥�.

Just after D Day he was sent to Europe through Holland and France then war stopped. Father was sent into Berlin into the sector the Russians were just leaving to make way for the British. It became the British Sector. He went into Chancellery and the Russians were inside chipping bits off Hitler鈥檚 desk so father decided to have a bit for himself. It was made of brown marble and it was polished to look like wood.

He brought back invasion maps of Barnsley and Sheffield with German writing on.

Uncle Bill was in the Airbourne Division, he was killed just after D Day, about 15th June. He had only been married about a year; I was a pageboy at their wedding.

I remember one air raid when I was at School. We went into the shelter on Racecommon Road with our Mickey Mouse masks on.

We had a woman and her daughter as evacuees from the Channel Isles. When they came to Barnsley mother went to St Edward鈥檚 Hall, up Kingstone and she agreed for them to live with us. They did not stay long and I don鈥檛 know where they went after.

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