- Contributed by听
- CSV Media NI
- People in story:听
- Ivy Dunlop
- Location of story:听
- Belfast, N Ireland
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A8679270
- Contributed on:听
- 20 January 2006
This story is taken from an interview with Ivy Dunlop, and has been added to the site with their permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions. The interview was by Walter Love, and transcription was by Bruce Logan.
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[You remember Vera Lynn, don鈥檛 you?]
I do, very much so. I love music
It brought back an awful lot of memories about the war. Places we鈥檇 gone out to, places that were bombed, mines that were left in different places, the barrage balloons up, the blackout at night.
[Your father was in the Army]
There was 4 of us, and we loved to see my father coming in in the morning with his kit-bag. He could go to the NAAFI and get different things. He was in the RUR - he was in the Highland Light Infantry first, then went into the RUR.
[Walter Love 鈥 鈥淭here was 5 of us in our family. We had an uncle in the RAF, and he sent us a mars-bar - we each got 1/5th of a mars-bar, and we loved it!鈥漖
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