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- 大象传媒 Open Centre, Hull
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- Eric Carver
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- Hull
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- Royal Navy
- Article ID:听
- A4157453
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- 06 June 2005
Story told to Christine Barker at the VE Day Celebrations in Beverley 2005
I joined the Navy on 17th Birthday in 1943. On the Sunday before VE Day in 1945 we were on a ship, on patrol in the Atlantic and we were making our way back to Greenock.
At six o鈥檆lock I was on the bridge and we got 鈥榓ction stations鈥 we鈥檇 picked up the sound of a submarine and we had action stations, we attacked for an hour but we lost it.
We made our way back to Greenock and the ship was going to have a boiler clean so half the ships crew were told they could have five days shore leave and I got that.
So I was on my way back to Hull on the train to Leeds, as I changed trains at Leeds to get to Hull, a lady said to me 鈥渋t鈥檚 over鈥, I said 鈥渨hat鈥檚 over鈥 she replied 鈥渢he war it鈥檚 over鈥 I told her 鈥渋t鈥檚 not over at all 鈥 well it wasn鈥檛 yesterday when I was fighting鈥. She assured me it was and that Churchill was coming on the radio that night to say so. Any way she was right and by the time I got home to Hull I heard him on the radio. So then on VE Day I went with many people to Queens Gardens in Hull to celebrate.
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