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I became disenchanted with being evacuated and returned to Hull and attended Kingston High School proper, which was then situated in Pickering Road. The school was about three miles away from where I lived in Ainthorpe Grove and I cycled to school most days. The rest of the boys of my age who were in the same class as me who had not been evacuated were full of war souvenirs such as pieces of shrapnel and badges from soldier鈥檚 uniforms where they could get them. Billetted next door to us were two soldiers, one a Scottish chap called Jock, who was in the commandos and the other was an American who used to give us American comics which were like gold dust. If you had an American comic to swap you could get the largest piece of shrapnel going. Jock, the Scottish soldier, I heard towards the end of the war had been killed and I never knew what happened to the American soldier.

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