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I was fourteen when World War Two began but must have been considered clever as I went on to Dereham High School until I was sixteen. After a short spell working in Norwich I got a job working at Wymondham Railway Station in the goods office. My home was near the station on the route to the American Military Hospital at Morley.
In 1944 when I was at home early in the morning we saw lots of ambulances coming from the station towards the hospital. These contained wounded from the D-Day landings. During the next few weeks there were hundreds more wounded coming through the station and the hospital had to erect tents between the nissen huts in order to accommodate them all.

The hospital used to send transport to Wymondham at weekends to fetch me and other people and we would go to the hospital and visit the wounded in the wards. We would play games, cards, etc. with them in their common room. This led to several romances and some weddings between Wymondham girls and the Americans.

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