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Boys play soldiers, we played German soldiers. People perhaps don鈥檛 think this, but the only soldiers we knew were German soldiers, we played dugouts, we played manoeuvres we played with our toy rifles and things, we played German soldiers, and for a while we wanted German shoulder tabs, I had a grey coat and my mother went spare about me wanting to put German insignia on my shoulders but all the other boys were getting their mothers to stitch up shoulder tabs. We used to march along in platoons and everyone wanted to be the corporal or sergeant and march alongside them, and usually the biggest boy would get to do this.
MALCOLM WOODLAND

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