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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Shankill Library on behalf of Mrs Annie Magill, nee Irvine, and has been added to the site with her permission.

My father was in the Pioneer Corps in the army and was lost at Dunkirk. He was 'missing presumed drowned' but the family was not informed until a year later. My mother was left to rear 6 children between the ages of 1 and 23.
We lived at Ligoniel and used to take shelter in the 'coal hole' during the
air-raids.
I remember a bomb falling at Ewarts Mill but it didn't go off and so the houses were safe. The towns people used to come up to Ligoniel to shelter.
I worked at Wolfhill Mill st Ligoniel during the war, doing thread work.
We didn't go out at night.
My mother came back from Dublin once wearing curtain material round her so that she wouldn't be searched.

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