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I lived in Twickenham with my mother and aunt. 1940. My husband was called up. I was 20. I found out soon afterwards that I was pregnant, about the time of the Battle of Britain. On the first raid I picked up my daughter and ran under that stairs cupboard. my aunt wouldn't join us. She was frightened of a mouse!

my husband was in the 8th army - an original desert rat. He wrote a book whilst out there called "with The 8th in north africa". He was then in the invasion of suicily, then italy. all this time the bombing at hoe was getting worse and i was evacuated with my little girl to cornwall.

my husband didn't come home until the war had finished. My girl was 5 and a quarter years old and didn't know him. The mental stress and exp[erience of war put all sorts of things through his mind. he became an alcoholic, dyig some years later through liver damage.

So now i'm against all war.

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