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I was at home in Selkirk during the War. We had a blackout at night. I remember gas masks and rationing. The mask was in a wee box and ye had to carry it everywhere. I mind seeing soldiers in Selkirk, they were at the Haining. When we went to school they would be out at drill. You had rationing — we got a wee dish of sugar and Mother said ‘when that’s gone it’s gone’, and I stopped taking sugar. It was a treat if you got banana, with the rationing. I like bananas now. We had kail, bread meat and kail. We had potatoes and mince, and an egg once a week. We had dried egg — we had it scrambled.

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