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'This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Helen Avey of CSV London on behalf of Jack Webb and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

As a Lancastrian my first taste of War was at 18. I was posted to the third floor of Block D of officer in the Minorities opposite Aldgate East Station. It was late 1942 and I was to be taught at the Sir John Cass texhnical insulate for 6 months before on to Bolton to finish the training before on to a squadron as a Wireless mechanic. Bombs were still falling in London which made it hard work to swat at night. Although the course was academic we still had to drill. Where was the quietest and most flat surface to do this? Of course the MOAT at the Tower of the London once a week. We hadn鈥檛 had much time for pleasure, the course was tough, but one way we related was by forming a choir and I can remember surrounding the shoppers on Sundays as they passed on their way to Petticoat Lane. After Bolton and work on Squadrons I came back south to Chigwell to the Doodle Bugs and V2鈥檚 - eventually to the Middle East and Aden where I met my future wife, still together after 56 years. But that鈥檚 another story.

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