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One day when we were out looking for shrapnel, we were out looking in the fields around us and we found some incendiary bombs in what we looked to us like a tea-tray. It was obviously some kind of bomb rack lying the ditch.

We scampered off to the warden鈥檚 post and on the way we stopped to tell some people that we鈥檇 found some bombs in the field, and when we got to the warden鈥檚 post we told him as well. He got on the phone to his headquarters and sort of languidly said 鈥渟ome boys here think they鈥檝e found some bombs, so we鈥檇 better go and have a look鈥�.

So off we went, and by the time we got there half a dozen other people (the ones who we鈥檇 told on the way) there too. Sure enough there were these bombs lying in this rack, but we were most annoyed as due to wartime censorship, we couldn鈥檛 be given headlines in the local paper.

We imagined 鈥淟ocal Boys Find Bombs鈥�, but it wasn鈥檛 to be.

This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Becky Barugh of the 大象传媒 Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Alvin Mansfield and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

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