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- CSV Action Desk Leicester
- People in story:听
- Olive and George Pegg
- Location of story:听
- Leicester & Bedfordshire
- Article ID:听
- A5304548
- Contributed on:听
- 24 August 2005
My husband, George was in the Royal Airforce at Henlow in Bedfordshire.
He was stationed all round as a engineer but he never went out of England.
He was in this line of work before the war began.
When they were shipping abroad he was in hospital with tonsillitis so didn't go.
They signed 6 of the Airforce men to go to Blackpool to pick something up.
By the time they got there they found out it was just to pick up a typewriter.
I married George in 1941 at the registry office in Leicester.
My mother wasn't well at the time. We had a small reception at home.
George would come home every other weekend.
He would go to the Dentist on a Friday to get a weekend pass. He would use a platform ticket to Rugby to Leicester.
Whilst travelling he'd get eggs to bring home.
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