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The War started when I was only 12. As I was only a young girl I couldn鈥檛 go into the military. However I had two older brothers who did. The older of the two was in the army and eventually by the end of the war had become a captain, whilst the younger one was a wireless operator and learnt/used Morse code. As my father was too old to join the military forces, he set up the Cherry Hinton Home Guard. My mother did not work but stayed at home. After the war, both of my brothers had changed a little.
My elder brother did not speak bout his experience in war much. All I have every found out was about his experience in Singapore; he went to the east to help free British prisoners of war. But when he got there he saw a sight that would haunt him for the rest of his life. He saw underfed, overworked very weak British men all of whom were dying slowly from exhaustion and malnutrition. No wonder he didn鈥檛 wan to speak that much about it!
My younger brother had an interesting time at war, he was sent home halfway through it after being wounded; he was based in Malta as a wireless operator reading Morse code, one day he was putting up a mast for connection when it collapsed top of him and broke his jaw. He was sent home for a short time to recuperate after wounding himself! Although after the war he was very fond of telling people he broke his jaw in battle.
These are the only two stories my brothers have told me. For my parents and me, nothing much of interest ever happened in the war, however we got a couple of lovely evacuees for a couple of months. However, although this war was horrid to be in, we did all learnt one thing from it; we learnt as a community to stick together if we were in trouble and that there is always a helping hand.

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