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I was evacuated at the age of 9 from North Tyneside and was sent to Keelney, Northumberland. I ended up on a farm with the Swallow family. I loved working on the farm, my jobs included bringing the cows up at milk time, feeding the hens and gathering the eggs or helping Mr Swallow in the garden. As the war advanced they had to grow corn and I helped gather the corn each harvest time.
I used to come home to North Tyneside during school holidays. I remember once my brother shouting upstairs to evecuate the house as they were dropping bombs. We all rushed downstairs and outside to the shelter. It was not a bomb... it was lightening which hit the ballon barrage over the River Tyne, another false alarm.
I spent over nearly five year in Keelney and grew up on the farm. My mother gave you me permission to stay after my schooling.

I remember the end of the war, I was in Haltwhistle,Northumberland everyone was so excited with the news, I did not really understand.

My ambition however was to be a land army girl, unfortunatly my father died when I was 16 and I cam back home to Wallsend. I returned as a "mothers help" shopping and looking after children.
My brother was in the army, Jim Clements, Kings own Scottsih Border regiment. He was called up at 18 for last year of the war. He was a stretcher bearer in the army, he was injured in his final days with schrapnel in his eye.
My sister, Beatrice Clements was in the ATS, in Inverness and met her husband to be whilst serving.

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