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My Grandad was 19 when the war started, and was already in the army. He has always lived in Liverpool and has lived in the same house with my Nana for the past 60 years. He was the eldest in his family and looked after his mother and the younger children when his mother was ill. When the war started he was sent away to Germany to fight in the tanks. He fought until 1943 when he was captured by the germans and taken to Poland on a 48 hour train journey standing up in the dark. He was placed in a P.O.W. camp and forced to work down the coal mines for a very long time in terrible conditions. He was given a third of a loaf and a bowl of very watery, horrid tasting soup to dip it in. As you can imagine it would have been horrible for anyone to go through. While he was in the camp he contraacted maleria, an illness. He got over it slowly but surely and was working back down in the mines in no time. When the war came to an end and England was led to victory, the prisoners were realised and forced to walk home. He walked all the way across Europe, as there was no other way to get home. On his way back he picked up an accordian and carried it along with his belongings all the way back to Liverpool.
H came home to his family living in a different house that what he'd left when he went away. This is because they'd had a direct hit, luckily no-one was harmed, but they had to be moved into a new house. I am very proud of my Grandad and just the other day he showed me the medals he retrived for being a war veteran. Can i just say something before i finish this short story. The series called "P.O.W." is nothing like the real thing. Thank you for reading my Grandad's story, there is a lot more to be said, that happened, but it would be too long ! Please post this story so other people can read it and be grateful to people like my Grandad, there were hundreds like him, but without them it could have been completely different. Thanks again.
melanie x age 14 , warrington

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