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The food wasn’t bad and the army cooked it. It was mostly men cooks and they were pretty good at cooking. They used to make what I used to like — a lot of these - not cakes really, but a cheap kind of cake. They used to make a big one and cut it up so we never went short of food.

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Becky Barugh of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Mary Woolley and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

See more of Mary's stories:

• 'You have to go, that's that'
• Fully Fashioned
• Just desserts
• 'By the left and off you go'
• 'Get off the streets'

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