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I was born in Great Yarmouth and evacuated to Retford in Nottinghamshire. We only stayed there twelve weeks before coming back to Great Yarmouth. We used to stand and watch the Spitfires do their victory rolls over the coast when they hit an enemy plane. We watched the Battle of Britain from the coast.

In 1941 I went to Stafford. I had one brother who was a regular, one who was a PoW in Japan, one in the Desert Rats, one in Madagascar, one worked on the Humber as a cook and the youngest worked on a farm. The brother in the PoW camp only got news that his mother was dead a year after she had died.

After the war, the youngest brother joined the Palestinian Police Force, and was blown up in 1947. The other brothers all survived. I worked in Burntwood Military Hospital, Lichfield, working on the wards with many Dutch amputees.

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