- Contributed by听
- Elizabeth Lister
- People in story:听
- Joyce Clark, Roger Pryor, Marion Walter
- Location of story:听
- Wooburn Green, Buckinghamshire
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A7074650
- Contributed on:听
- 18 November 2005
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The troopship landed at Southampton full of soldiers from India. 1st & 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment among them my dad included. Then we were told that dad had to go to Caterick camp with the Battalion and have no leave after 8 year abroad.
Mum, my brother and I then got on a train to Wooburn Green to meet mum鈥檚 sister Dorothy, whom she hadn鈥檛 seen for five years. We stayed with Aunty Dorothy, Uncle Bill and Marion, my cousin, until after Christmas 1940. Whilst there on Sunday 3 September 1939 a very subdued feeling came over the house as we all listened to the radio as a solemn voice announced that England was at war with Germany. I was only eight years old and my brother was four years old.
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