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This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War website by a volunteer from Lincoln CSV Action Desk on behalf of Eileen Naylor and has been added to the site with her permission. Mrs Naylor fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.

In the summer of 1940 soldiers from the Royal West Kent Reg鈥檛 were billeted in the church hall, the chapel hall, the comrades institute and the isolation hospital. They mounted guard outside each of the premises and as children we used to play around theses areas and became friendly with them They all got on very well with the villagers. As it was summer and long evenings, Norse Torr and friends served tea and refreshments round the lawn of our home and later they used the clubroom over the local blacksmith鈥檚 shop as the darker nights drew in. Several families continued to keep in touch when they were transferred from here and one or two came back after demob and married local girls.

We also had evacuees from Hull, Leeds, Birmingham and Yarmouth. Some didn鈥檛 settle and returned home, but one in particular stayed on and worked in the village after leaving school and on 2nd June 1951 married my cousin Joyce Milner in the local church. His name is Hubert J Wright and they now live at Grange-de-Lings near Scampton.

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