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I was nine when the war started and I remember the sirens going off. I lived in east Belfast, in Castlereagh. When the sirens went my mother and my step-father rounded up the seven of us children, we were hurried out into the street, walked about five miles into the Castlereagh hills and sheltered under bushes. There were hundreds of people. It was like a football ground getting out.

You could see the explosions and the fires in the city. I was too young to join up. Orange Field School had German Prisoners of War there. I would have been about 13 in 1943. We used to go over in groups and throw stones and shout at them. The school must have been commandeered by the army. The shouted back at us in German but we didn鈥檛 know what they were saying.

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