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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Bev Dann of the county Heritage Team on behalf of Mrs Shirley Watts and Mr John Watts and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

Mrs Watts

It was in 1940 when I was five years old that my dad joined the R.A.M.C. and went to Africa and Burma and in six yers I saw him only once - on that occasion I was called to my mum's bedroom and was shattered to find a man in her bed, because up until then an aunt had slept with her! We lived with my grandparents in Ipswich. Once when visiting our family home, walking up Sherrington Road a Stuka plane shot at us as we walked up the hill but luckily no one was hurt. The rations are clear in my mind and I must say that today's Spam is not nearly so tasty! If we were out when an air-raid siren went we were always told to knock at the nearest door for sanctuary.

Mr Watts

I can remember cycling to Felixstowe from Ipswich in 1943 and being turned back when I was in between Trimley and Walton, the road was cut off with barbed wire. I lived in Ipswich during the war and went to Northgate School where there was a barrage balloon in the playingfield. I can also remember that the air raid shelters seemed a long way from the playingfield. Another thing about school that sticks in my memory is that we had several female and also husband and wife teachers.

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