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We were aged 1 and 3 years when the war started.
Doris. I lived in Deal and one day my mother, brother and I were walking along the road and the siren went. The planes came over and so they pushed me in the gutter and laid on top of me to protect me. This was my only memory of the war. My stepsister, Edna, was working in a baker's shop in Deal (near to St George's Church)circa 1943 and the whole shop was bombed with everyone being lost.
Ted.
I was at South Deal School in Mill Road and we used to practise with our gas masks. We went in a special room or hut with the gas masks on and they filled the room with some sort of odour and we were glad to get out, still alive though!
The house next door to us in Mill Road was used as accommodation for British and American soldiers.
My uncle lived in Dover and was in the Army and when he came back on leave he would bring souvenirs such as German flags and armbands showing swasktikas. He brought hand grenades, bayonnettes, tin helmets to show us.

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