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- MALCOLM WOODLAND
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- Guernsey
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- A4043134
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- 10 May 2005
We lived in a growing area, so there were always potatoes, although they did run out from time to time. But fuel was the thing, its all right having a Red Cross parcel but no good if you’ve got no fuel to heat the tin of soup, or whatever it was. Particularly the New Zealand boxes had mutton and pea stew, a 15oz can, a big can. Yes, this was fine, provided you could get it hot enough, but towards the end you couldn’t. I remember one horrible thing about the NZ parcel, and I hope never to see it again, was the corned mutton. Corned beef, great stuff, corned mutton, don’t even think about it.. You had corned mutton instead of corned beef. I think the sheep was pre-war.
MALCOLM WOODLAND
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