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This story was submitted to the People’s War website by Shelley and Amy, pupils from Teversham Primary School on behalf of Sonny Peter Jolly and has been added to the site with his permission. Mr Jolly fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

I joined the army in 1949 and was in the Coldstream guards. I was born in 1932 on the 20th November. I went to a school at Riddlesworth School in Norfolk. I left school at 14. After I left school I worked in a bakery shop. I worked there until I was 16. I used to stand by a gate in London. When I heard the sirens go off we had to turn all the lights off. The cars had covers over the lights. On the biggest car you could get, which was black, you had to put a white strip on the back. I was sent to Egypt after that, to protect the canal.

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