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I received an invitation (must have applied somehow)to go to London to speak by recorded message to my husband in India in 1941. We had married with special 48hrs licence a fortnight earlier.

My sister and I went amidst bombing to the Criterion Theatre in Leicester Square and we were introduced to Christopher Stone a well known broadcaster on the wireless. I can't remember the date, it was summer and we lived in West Ham E13 and endured many nights in the shelter followed by going to work the next day and helping to put out incendiary bombs. However, I showed my message to the broadcaster; I had never seen a microphone and we had one to speak through and had to deliver our messages.

About 3 months after I had a message sent by post from London saying my husband had heard my message. He went on to pass to become an ammunition Examiner (for which he was promoted with 3 stripes). He moved to Burma and the memories of what he endured never left him or the malaria. He served 3 years 10 months overseas and didn't come home until well after the war in Europe was over.

He joined the Burma Star Assosciation and for part of the time was secretary of the Burgess Hill branch. He died in 1990. On his headstone I had the Burma Star engraved (so proud of it). He was such a brave man.

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