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"I'm a pupil from Prudhoe Community High School, Northumberland, entering Matthew Christer's story onto the website, and they fully understand the website terms and conditions of use."

I was 16 years old when the war started, i lived in Prudhoe at this time. I didn't have a large family, there were four of us. School was ok, it was a catholic school though, we couldn't get in to any other schools. My house was never bombed. My late wife's aunty was bombed in London. I was working at Glendinning's. Working during the war was no different to working at any other time, you just had to get on with it.
I had a girlfriend too, she lived at Greenside, we met every weekend, we went to Greenside dance every Saturday night, all the Elvis Presley clothes were in at the time, but I never wore anything like that!
I wasn't evacuated during the war, there was no need, we were already in the country, only the people in the cities were evacuated.
I was 18 and a half when i was called up to the army, i didn't join, you had to go. I could have appealed against it but it wouldn't have got me very far i don't think. I was put in the Army, the Service Core. They asked you where you wanted to go (eg, Army, Navy) but they decided in the end, i wanted to go into the Navy, but i was put into the Army. I wasn't married

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