- Contributed by听
- Genevieve
- People in story:听
- Robert Burns
- Location of story:听
- Walsall, West Midlands
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A6042638
- Contributed on:听
- 06 October 2005
My name鈥檚 Robert Burns and I was born in 1934 in Walsall in the West Midlands. I was five years old when the war broke out and I remember it very well.
The first thing I remember was my brothers going off to war. My Mother who anticipated food rationing, we had already got chickens, ducks and rabbits, then we decided to get a pig a rear it with a bottle. At six months you could kill the pig then. We eat all our pets; at one stage my Mother said 鈥渨e鈥檝e got no meat, we鈥檒l have to eat the dog!鈥 and I cried 鈥淣o Mother not the dog!鈥
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