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Mr Donald Board interviewed by Margaret le Cras.
Edited transcript of tape recording of the interview

And the other thing, cyclists weren鈥檛 allowed to ride abreast. Now the wife and I 鈥�
I鈥︹�︹��. Because you married, you said , in 44, eh? You would have been courting, before 44?
Mr Board. That鈥檚 right, we were riding back along the Gravees towards where I lived, and we were stopped, by what they called the Feldgendarmerie, and they had big aluminium plates on chains hung around their necks, and we were cycling abreast, and we were fined. One mark, which was about two shillings and a penny, two and a penny. They fined us. Now when I鈥檇 be cycling home from the St John Ambulance Station in the Rohais after evening duty, and of course blackout, you鈥檇 get a torch flashed in your eyes, it was the Feldgendarmerie, and I鈥檇 be in uniform, of course, he鈥檇 say 鈥淎usweis鈥� - which was permit 鈥� you had to show them. We had permits, in German, in uniform we were allowed after curfew. I was stopped, I wasn鈥檛 fined, because the blackout on my cycle light, it was a home-made one, it was too bright, he said.
I鈥︹�︹��. So were you kept busy during the war with the Ambulance? Did you have to go out many times?
Mr Board. No, I wasn鈥檛 in the brigade after, I left about the end of nineteen-forty.

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