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I joined the Territorial Army six weeks before war started. So I was called up with the TA when war was declared. I falsified my age; told them I was seventeen when i was really sixteen. I was in the 5th Battalion, Folkestone.

When the war started I was swimming in Dover during the first air raid. Because everything was new, we sheltered in the cliffs which was the military thing to do.

Like everybody else, I didn't know what to do; you take it as it comes.

This story was submitted to the People's War website by Helena Noifeld of 大象传媒 Radio Kent and has been added to the website on behalf of F. Cloake with his permission. He fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

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