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My father was in the regular army and in 1939 we had returned from India to N. Ireland(Belfast-Holywood)My brother was born there.
Father was posted to Blackpool- and so my mother took us there to be near him(but he was posted abroad again)
Everything was bought with coupons,food,clothes etc.She went to an auction to buy a table and chairs as we had practically nothing.
Then we went to London and were 'living' in the Anderson shelter in the garden at Clapham.All us kids had chickenpox and measles.Mother would buy an orange for my little brother.She also got orange juice and cod liver oil on ration book coupons.
We were in the Anderson shelter constantly during the 'doodle bug' and buzz bomb raids.So mother decided we should be evacuated back to Blackpool.My brother went to one family and I went to a friends home.I felt I was made to feel like a second class citizen.Eventually,as we were so unhappy we came back to London.
Father was wounded in Dunkirk.But I remember the end of the war(VE Day)Crowds and crowds were along the embankment and he came home.Unfortunatly,he had been unfaithful but my mother still loved him.
The war deprived us of our father and mother of a husband.

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