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My first recollection of the War was in 1939. My father had taken me to Weymouth to see the King reviewing the fleet in Weymouth Bay. A man in the crowd exclaimes" There will be war before not too long". A meaningless statement to me at that time at the age of nearly six.

My next memory was to follow shortly. Playing in the garden with wireless playing at full volume, I remember the immortal words to the effect " We have this day declared war on Nazi Germany ". Again it did not mean much to me, but the distress of my parents is still with me, particularly my father, who had been badly wounded in the 1914-1918 war and had lost 2 brohters, one on the Somme and one who died as aresult of his wounds at Gallipoli

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