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I was 21 years of age in June, and was about to be married, and go to live in Strood, but, as the news of the impending war was worrying, my husband to be (Stan) and I decided that we would put the wedding off until September. As the news gradually got worse, we didn't get married until January 1940 - hoping that the war would be over in a few months - ha ha!

I had been asked not to give up my job at the Post Office in Gravesend, where I worked as a counter-clerk, as we were very busy. We had already lost several male staff to the Services, and we had so many more wives claiming pensions, as their husbands were being called up. In addition to our usual tasks, we also had to take all the counterfoils from the Postal Orders (we had many thousands of these), as they were to be used as cash in December 1939.

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