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It must have been about eighteen months before D Day, I would have been Twelve at the time. My father owned a small area of woodland at the Plantation Curdridge where we lived. Out of the blue this area of land was taken over by the Army and in only a few weeks there was an army camp set up and over the next twelve months or so the whole of this wooded area was gradually covered with mountains of, in the main tinned foods. There was a modest permanent staff on this camp enough that they would have ENSA Shows and just before D day a vist from Montgomery and Churchill. There were two trees close to a small bridge over a ditch and one of the soldiers had noticed that Monty had jumped over the ditch and Churchill had used the bridge, he had fixed up two signs, Churchil's Bridge and Mony's Leap the signs stopped there for many years. Leading up to D Day there were convoys of Lorries that queued day and night loading the food until it was all gone. The staff left only about two days after D Day. My family and neighbours had got to know most of them very well but after the war we never ever heard from one of them again, we always feared that the went into Cann and lost their lives but it's something I suppose we will never know.
Eric Carpenter

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