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Comradeship

“I joined the Signals attached to Intelligence and for one reason we were very lucky since the army got better food than the rest of the population. It wasn’t fancy but we couldn’t complain since there was plenty of it. In the evenings if someone had a birthday or an excuse for a party we would go to the pub or to the films. Our favourites were ‘In Which we Serve’ and, of course, ‘Casablanca.’ “ Joan Wise was just 17 when the war broke out and lived in New Romney which was on the route for planes and doodle bugs coming over on their way to London. So it didn’t seem lucky but in fact New Romney was extremely lucky – since only three people were killed here during the war, two men were particularly unlucky as they were killed when a doodle bug fell right on top of an air raid shelter. But I just wanted to get away and join the army. When I was old enough I joined the signals
attached to Intelligence and worked with lots of people. There was tremendous comradeship.

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