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Dad told how there was a search - probably looking for radios which had been forbidden and were supposed to be handed in. Mum and Dad were allowed to watch the Germans as they worked their way through the house. Dad was very nervous when they got to the tall boy in one of the bedrooms for he knew he had a proscribed camera in there. Sure enough when the soldier opened the tall boy door, there was the camera, straight in front of him, at eye level. This German said nothing but just closed the door and went to search elsewhere. Had the man not noticed the camera or had he been told just to look for radios and therefore did not feel the need to report the camera? Dad liked to think the German had noticed but had not wanted to get Dad and his family into trouble.

Auntie Lilly lived at Rose Cottage, Le Varclin. She noticed Germans coming through the garden gate intent on a search. She knew she had a forbidden crystal set radio in the house, for which she and Uncle Arthur might well be sent to prison either in Guernsey or France. The only place she could hide the set quickly was in the saucepan of soup she was cooking. It was a choice of either going hungry or going to prison. When the search was made the German soldier in the kitchen, commented how nice the soup smelled and lifted the lid to have a better sniff. Little did he know he was taking in the aroma of B.B.C. soup.

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