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I was working at William Pretty Clothes factory. I was there a year after war broke out then I was lucky to get a job at Reavells. We done two weeks 8am- 8pm and then two weeks 8pm- 8am. This went on for just over five years. Reavells Munitons factory kept us on for a while after that. My husband, then fiancee, was called up in July 15th 1939 which was supposed to be for a period of six months training, but as war broke out in September 3rd 1939 he was not allowed out of the Army which resulted in him being sent to France and he was taken prisoner of war in Dunkirk, and spent the rest of the war wrking at different farms in Germany as he was used to farm work. At the end he was on what was called the three months "death march". He had three months repatrastion leave and after that was sent to Salisbry Plain to await his demomb, which was July 1945.
I lived in a small country cottage with my parents and sister until I married in November 1946. No mod cons. During the war a bomb shelter dug by all residents. We all used to go out whatever the weather to the shelters armed with flasks of drink and sandwiches all prepared beforehand in case the air raid siren went, there was no wasting the sandwiches if no alarms went as everthing was rationed we couldn't (or daren't)waste anything.

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