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D Day Plus 1.

I was fourteen years old, and a patient in a Sanatorium (at Black Notley) when D. Day started. All night we heard heavy bombers going out and thought it was a big raid. In the morning nurses came round, and said everybody well enough could go home, beds had to be emptied ready for casualties. I contacted my mother and told her I could come home. She asked the driver of the special coach if I would be able to sit on her lap.
When we were given our ration book and identity card, they had a sticker on the front with the sanatorium address on it, which I tore off before giving them to my mother.
The journey home to Corringham was one mass of convoys, of troops and tanks, etc, going to the docks.
The following week my mother took my ration book to the shops we were registered with and I thought nothing more about it, until a couple of days later the police came to our house to ask how I had re-entered a restricted area without permission. Very Scary!!

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