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This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Catherine Garvie, Learning Project Manager at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland on behalf of an anonymous female contributor from Darvel in East Ayrshire and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

My step dad was in Belgium in the Yeomanry during the War. He told me a story about a family in Belgium who were very kind to him. He was staying in their farm house and told the family that he had a little step daughter (I didn’t know that I was adopted at the time) and they gave him a doll for me.

He held onto that parcel through thick and thin and came home with a big battered cardboard box containing the doll which was 40 years old at the time. I still have the doll and it has real hair. I’ve kept it and it’s now over 100 years old — a huge thing that is double jointed!! It’s a wonderful doll and brings back fond memories of my step dad.

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