- Contributed byÌý
- Genevieve
- People in story:Ìý
- Margaret Watson (nee Irwin)
- Location of story:Ìý
- Margate - Kent.
- Background to story:Ìý
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:Ìý
- A8482160
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 12 January 2006
My fiancée was on standby for the invasion and he was in Margate- but of course all the civilian population had been cleared out — it was just army. Because I was in uniform I could go and visit him.
He would take me to the cinema and I would look round and there’d be me, surrounded by a sea of Khaki!
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