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This story was submitted by Alan Welsh, a Radio Cumbria volunteer, on behalf of Alex McKenzie and has been added to the site with his permission.

During the war, Alex was a schoolboy living in Barrow-in-Furness. He recalls seeing many mock 鈥渂attles鈥� around the town where the Home Guard would attempt to defend the docks and important buildings from an 鈥渁ttack鈥� by troops based at nearby Dalton.

Alex often saw columns of Home Guard marching round the town, but the strangest sights during the mock 鈥渂attles鈥� were the Home Guard standing around with signs round their neck saying, 鈥渨e are dead鈥�, 鈥渨e are captured鈥�, etc.

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