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My father, Ellis Rowell, started war work in 1936 when he got a job at Debden in Essex building the airfield. The next job was at Bassingbourn in Cambridgeshire, again building the airfield. The first aircraft were Bristol Blenheim Mk1's. From there he went to Wyton, Huntingdonshire (now Cambs.). In 1939 with the run up to the war, main telephone lines were being put underground, he worked on these. After this he worked on Waterbeach and Oakington airfields before moving to Bourn airfield (1940)where he remained for the rest of the war. In 1943 he was declared unfit for manual work outside (constant working in all weathers had taken its toll). He was then taken onto the Air Ministry as a civilian worker in charge of three boilers on the airfield. He did this until the end of the war.

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