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I was 21 years old and lived at Holly Bush Farm Minchinhampton. Dad was a farmer. We used to get up at 6 o鈥檆lock to milk the herd of 30 cows by hand. My brother and I used to deliver the milk all round Minchinhamton and Amberley by a horse drawn cart. There was an American camp on the common. We used to take milk to the Americans in a big milk churn with a tap on it. Any spare milk we had after our deliveries was collected by Cadbury鈥檚 and taken to their factory at Frampton to be made into chocolate.

Colonel Ricardo lived in Gatcombe House and he used to hold a Christmas party and I was invited because our farm used to supply him with goods. He always gave me a present.

I can remember one day a bomb dropped outside our farm in the road and made a big hole.

When the aircraft used to take off from Aston Down they were so low they used to scare our cows. Dad used to phone up the airfield and give them what for!

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