- Contributed by听
- cambslibs
- People in story:听
- Anthony David Dawkes b. 1930 and Rita Jolley b. 1953
- Location of story:听
- Stanground nr. Peterborough
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A2907461
- Contributed on:听
- 10 August 2004
My dad Anthony David Dawkes was born in 1930 and joined up in 1948.[reports Rita Jolley] He was a youngster during the war.
Dad and his friend Maurice collected old newspapers and sold them, at the rate of one penny for a stone weight. Dad wanted to be a parachutist, and one day jumped out of a bedroom window with an umbrella!
Dad and Maurice pinched gun-sight from a shot down enemy arircraft and used it to replace fuse wire. It lasted for years.
My uncle Sergeant Greswold set up a spoof replica of Peterborough at Horsey Toll. He would set fire to barns to persuade the Germans think they'd hit the city.
Added N. Simmons 10.8.04.
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