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This contribution was submitted by Bill Spry and is added to the site with his permission.
I spent some time with my unit in Portadown. As my sleeping out pass was still valid I brought Sylv and baby Chris back with me.

We went to a grocer鈥檚 shop in Portadown to get her usual rations, two ounces of this, one ounce of that. She was very surprised and pleased, when the woman serving said 鈥渨ill a pound of sugar and a pound of butter be enough for now?鈥�.

Southern Ireland (now Eire) was officially neutral. Down there the was no rationing and everything was plentiful. Our civilians could cross the border by train and do their shopping with no trouble at all. Our shopkeepers were getting their supplies from there too.

However if I had gone down there in uniform I would have been interred for the duration of the war.

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