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I was 2 when war broke out, and born in Alexandria as my parents were working there. My father was a shipping clerk. From home, you could hear the guns of Alamein. When Montgomery defeated Rommel, the guns were only 20 miles or so to the west of us. When the bombs went off, mum and dad shoved me under the piano. There were no air raid shelters. When the bombs fell, the whole street shook. I can still smell the aftermath. Mother worked for the Army but she wasn't on the front line. One of my most vivid memories is of the two cruisers, the Achilles and the Ajax, which arrived in Alexandria from Argentina. There was such a fiesta when they came in. In 1947, we moved to Sussex, where there was still rationing. This was a real shock!

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