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Born around 1939, 84 yrs now
Memory
Rushing with food, scarsity of food as most people grew there own food, we used to eat pigs, chicken and rabbits as shooting the rabbits were okay then.
Beer came from London as the brewery in Nottingham was bombed.
Family
I and my brothers were both in the army one in the north of Africa, the other in the air force and the other in Ireland as it was a must to go to the army as soon as you turned eighteen, but if had my way I would stay in the army as I had gone up to the sergeant rank and there I had people under me to do work for me, so I would command people around most of the time leaving me with nothing to do. Left the army when I was about twenty one years old.
Born in oxford but worked in the army in Nottingham then came back after the war and worked in the coal mining three miles down underground.
In the army
In the arm I was in charge of ammunition and part of my work was mainly supplying ammunition to the guys in the battle field which kept me going as I was never worried about going to the war but again people were more friendly than today.
On the d-day I remember I was about sixteen years old and I was standing around the Woodstock round about now known as peer tree round about, then I saw the bombs coming down on Coventry, the Germans bombed the cathedral of Coventry then the British in return bombed the Germans .Then shortly after all the bombing was done we all gathered to the streets the following day to celebrate the d-day, people brought food to the street parties it was all good.

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