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- csvdevon
- People in story:Ìý
- Melanie Elizabeth Elliot (nee Lawrence), Captain and Mrs C Lawrence
- Location of story:Ìý
- Cheriton Bishop, Devon
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A6492431
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 28 October 2005
This story has been written to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ People's War site by CSV Storygatherer Celia Bean on behalf of Melanie Elliot. The story has been added to the site with her permission, and Melanie Elliot fully understands the terms and conditions of the site.
My parents were farming at Thorne, Cheriton Bishop and had gangs of German POWs working for them. As my father had been a prisoner in WW1 at Haltz Minden he spoke German, and my mother made them tea. Some of them spoke English.
Three of them made wooden toys for my sister (born 1940) and myself (born 1942). We had a doll's cradle with rockers, a doll's table and 4 chairs and a wooden horse on wheels pulling a cart. It had a mane and tail and harness. They were all painted.
This was very kind of them, and my mother told us about them — I remember the toys, but not the men. They were not paid, they did it out of kindness when we could not get toys.
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