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I can’t remember too much about the actual day, but I would have been involved in the Church service as I was a member of the choir. Any family celebrations were subdued by my mother, as her brother was a prisoner of the Japanese and it was not known if he had survived.
However, my father who was in the Royal Marines had brought home a full size White Ensign that he had ‘Liberated’. It was the first British flag to fly over the town of Catania in Sicily, we hung it across the front of Number 44. He would, no doubt, have been Court Martialled if he were found to have the Flag. Apparently wrapped it round his body to pass the guard at Portsmouth Dockyard.

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