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I was not very old when the war started, being born in October 1930, but I remeber that my oldest sister Inez was called up for service in the WRAC, my second sister worked on the farm with my father and my oldest brother was called up for service in the Army.
My father dug a lovely shelter for us and four or five other families who lived close by. Often when all the families were in the shelter with quite a lot of young children, we thought it was good fun.
We watched the big aeroplanes leave from RAF Honington late at night.
Going to school we had to carry our gas masks with us at all times!
I also remeber the evacuees arriving in our village from London and having to go and live with country people they had never met before.
My father joined the Home Guard and held the rank of Lieutenant; I was so proud of him!
Food was rationed but as I was young I really did not think much about it, we were never hungry as our mother always managed to make a good meal, even now I can remember egg powder for scrambled egg and I loved the taste.
All windows had to be covered during hours of darkness so that no light showed through. There were no street lights in the village. Sometimes, when looking out of our bedroom windows into the darkness, we would see the search lights across the sky.
There wrer a lot of Army trucks through the village full of troops, we thought it was great fun as we were young and did not really understand that a world war was going on.
I am the fifth of ten children, six girls and four boys, and we are all still alive.

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