- Contributed by听
- A7431347
- People in story:听
- Marjorie Lacey. Mr Lacey
- Location of story:听
- Hartlip. Rainham
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A7441373
- Contributed on:听
- 01 December 2005
In September 1939 my husband was twenty four and I was twenty one and we had a three month old daughter. My husband wanted to go into the army when the war started, "To drive, not to be a foot slogger", he said.
He went to Canterbury to do his training and I moved in with my mum in Hartlip. I had gone into service in Rainham at fourteen and I carried on in service while my mum looked after the baby. My husband was working as a Royal Army Service Corps driver and he was away for the whole six years of the war apart from a fortnight after Dunkirk. I remember standing at the bottom of Hartlip Hill to wait for him when he'd got out of the train ar Rainham. After that fortnight he went to North Africa for the rest of the war.
When he came home he didn't talk about his experiences.
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