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Delivering messages

by townbridge

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townbridge
People in story:听
Sheila Morris
Location of story:听
LLanelli
Article ID:听
A3758619
Contributed on:听
08 March 2005

Sheila was 11 when war broke out and was living in Llanelli in Wales. She had a bicycle and heard from the YWCA that they were looking for volunteers to take messages to the Home Guard units. She volunteered and remembers taking her messages from the Welsh-speaking Tabernacle Chapel to the Home Guard units. One day while she was delivering a messge on her bicycle, she came across her father who was in the Home Guard himself. She called out to him: "You've been shot Dad" and he called back "No, they've missed me!" She remembers sewing his stripes on to his uniform when he was promoted. Only 1 bomb fell actually on Llanelli but "they bombed Swansea a lot."

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