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This story is taken from an interview with Ellen Ray, and has been added to the site with their permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions. The transcription was by Bruce Logan.
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My brother went from Fusiliers to Paras and during training his chute didn’t open. He had to go to a military hospital. They demobbed him without telling my mother — she didn’t know what had happened to him. He met his pals in Belfast before he can home and he had an epileptic fit on the bus. They put a steel plate in his head and he never got a pension.

All friends from Belfast offered to come to our place in Carnmoney when they were bombing. It had an underground shelter.
Ex-servicemens’ houses in Carnmoney.

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