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Daphne lived on a farm in Brenchley during the war. She was 10 when the war started and 16 when it ended. She worked on the farm with her parents. When planes flew over the farm her mother would send her to the fields to get her dad off the tractor, she would have to take her two year old cousin with her. She can remember shells and canons being dropped overhead. They had a shelter in the garden. A polish or Hermann fighter came down in the apple trees, the man inside couldn鈥檛 speak a word of English. She can remember every Sunday, just before they had their Sunday Roast the Battle of Britain was just about to start and silver planes would fly overhead. She recalls the commotion when such things happened, her mother would pass out and their two year old cousin needed looking after.

She has a lot of family history in Brenchley, herself, her mother and her grandmother all got married in Brenchley Church. Her parents always did farm work.

On VE day there were no celebrations on the farm, not a lot of people did anything. Daphne got married on August 2nd 1947. The rations meant she was only allowed 2 armchairs and a bed. Her mother brought the cake. It had been a show cake, in the Cadina Caf茅, in Tunbridge Wells. She received a letter from the queen, as they got married in the same year. She had twins in July 1948 (when she was nineteen). When she would queue up for her rations as she had twins she would be able to jump the queue.

No one ever moaned during the war, everyone kept happy.

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