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I live in Bury St Edmunds and recall how as children we used to try and make kites out of the silver foil they collected, but the star prize went to anyone who found a parachute. These being made of silk were much sought after during the years of war as wedding dress material!
When I was in hospital having my tonsils removed, I recalled seeing a woman who had had both of her lower arms blown off in a bomb blast sitting up in bed knitting away with the needles tucked into her armpits.

My Father served in the Suffolk Regiment and was awarded the DCM for rescuing a total of 8 people from minefields. His Citation and the picture of when he received this award from the High Sheriff of Gloucester is now at the nearby Muckleburgh Collection. I remembered when my Father came home on leave one time he was covered from head to foot in mud and his trousers held up with barbed wire. Sadly he died of pneumonia shortly after the end of the War.

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