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Jock - my boyfriend in the 5th Survey Regiment of Royal Artillery - was working in Africa and Italy. He came home for VE Day which was spent in Bristol in a pub called the New Inn. We went there and we met the regiment who were based there. We met my husband's friends. I must have been a bit frivolous because I made eyes at another man in Jock's regiment! Jock got cross with me and I threw back my engagement ring - on VE Day! By the end of the day we couldn't be without one another and we made it up and I got the ring back. We were married and grew old together and were very very happy for 57 years so you could say that VE Day was a little blip!! Anyway, there were lots of people at the New Inn and we had great fun. We all were really enjoying ourselves.

When I heard the announcement that the war had ended I was very pleased but Jock was not released then as he had to stay overseas. He came back for VE Day for a month but then had to go back for another year.

When Jock came home for the month, the people he had worked for before the war (he was in service as a butler) - invited us to stay with them in London at their big house for a week. They took us to see 'Gay Rosalinda' which was a musical. We went to see Me and My Gal and several other shows. They paid for us and we had a great time.

Jock then had to go back abroad. I carried on doing the munitions, belting ammunition which was still needed for the war in the far east

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