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This story has been submitted to the People's War site by Albert George Morris.

I was born in Jamaica just after the war started, so I wouldn't know much about the war, but there are things I can remember while at school and growing up. I remember there was no cars or buses only big lorries full of soldiers and great big tanks with big guns. Also there was rations for food and with everything that was needed. There was black out, and at night we had to use candles, windows closed so that no light could be seen.

At least four or five of my family joined the Jamaican army and two went into to the RAF.

I also remember when I was quite young when I heard an aircraft flying overhead I would run under my nan's four-poster bed and hide. There was a few army camps near where we lived and as little boys we would go into the camps and the soldiers would give us sweets and money. There were Canadian, and American soldiers plus our own Jamaican home guards.

I remember the day the war ended, I was at school when our headmaster announced that the war has ended. We cheered and shouted and turned all the desks and seats over. We were very happy and we had the rest of the week off school.

It was a long time before our men folk start coming home. I remember my nan saying one of her nephews were killed in Egypt and a cousin was killed in England. There is not much more to tell. All I know now is what I've heard, and films I have seen. When I came to this country I did my national service of which I was sent to Singapore. I was very proud to serve in the British army and I become a corporal. I was very proud to serve Queen and country.

That's all thank you.

George Morris

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