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We lived in Dagenham at the beginning of the war. I was aged five years old and my brother was seven years old. We were evacuated first to Donnington in Berkshire and then moved on with that family to Bracknell, Berkshire. We were very unhappy staying with them. On Sundays they would send us on our own to attend church three times a day. They never wanted to attend with us, so we felt they just wanted us out of the way from them.

The family kept our food rations separate from them and their family. After a time we found our food seemed to be disappearing! My brother said someone was taking it, so we hid one day and saw the eldest boy of the family helping himself to our food. We told the mother but she would not believe us. We, obviously, started to become very thin children.

When our mother was able to come and visit she was so shocked to see how thin we had become, she took us away that day. We returned to Hornchurch, Essex because our house in Dagenham had been bombed.

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