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This story was submitted to the People's War website by Belinda working with Cornwall CSV on Behalf of Alice Tidball's daughter, Betty. It has been added to the site with Betty's permission - and she fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

As a young mother, my Mum lived in Newport, Monmouthshire in Wales. She had two young soldiers billeted with her. Every one that had soldiers billeted with them was told if they saw or heard anything unusual they were to report it. One day when cleaning one of the soldier's bedrooms, my mother saw a sketch of the local docks. My mother reported it, and the Military Police came to the house and took all his belongings, and she never saw him again!

Three doors up, there was a fish and chip shop. Of course there was black out in force. Mum was inside the house in her living room one evening - when the living room door opened, and there was a huge Black American serviceman stood in the doorway. He wanted fish and chips! He'd come through the front door, along the passage and opened the living room door as he thought it was the fish and chip shop!
No one locked their front doors then. My Mother directed him up the road to the chip shop. He was ever so polite, but it did frighten Mother for a moment.

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