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We were married in 1941 and my husband was in the police.
We were stationed in North Wiltshire. Not too far from Malmesbury. And of course there were a lot of activities going on in that time. We had an air shelter built in at the front drive and only occasionally we went into it during the night. My husband of course was kept very busy and so was the other policeman. The police station was built with two houses for the police and an office in the centre and during the war at that time we used to have to man, not exactly man the office, but if anyone came to the office and both police were out we were expected to answer the phone or see to anyone who came. And, of course, there was the usual rationing that everyone had. Nothing really outstanding happened to us. It was just wartime and you had to accept everything. Make do and mend.

We had no family because we didn鈥檛 intend having a family and my son was born in 1944 and my daughter in 1947, both in Malmesbury Hospital.

I know there was a prisoner of war camp about a mile down the road. They were, I think, Italians. I am almost certain they were Italian and my husband used to say they were quite a decent lot. They were quite a decent lot, these fellas, and he had told us because he鈥檇 have to go in from time to time to speak to them about something or other.

We used to have to into Chippenham for our main shopping and of course the usual queuing. When a confectioners had some nice cream slices or something like it and which was only very, very occasionally there was a queue down the street and by the time you got to the shop they were sold out. Very funny.

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