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I was nearly two years old when war was declared.SoI don't really remember ever being shipped off to safety,so to speak.However I was evacuated to the then tiny village of Keyingham,which is situated outside of Hull.Of whence I came from.I went to live with my grandmother on my mothers side,she of course was already resident there,as was my uncle,who was grandmothers son.We lived in a small cottage in Station Road,and I vividly remember looking out of the rear bedroom window and seeing Hull ablaze,and it being an awsome sight.I also remember the Italian prisoners of war that used be there with their orange/yellow circles stitched on their clothes to show who they where.They always seemed pleasant to me,but of course they were probably glad to be out of it.It was so idylic in those days in the country,and to have your early years among all the animals and the farming communities.One that does stick in my mind was that I dislocated my elbow by sliding down a haystack,and the doctor had to put me to sleep by putting drops on a mask over my face,so that he could put my elbow back in place.My mother and father stayed in Hull all the time,but I can remember them coming to visit me at times,and my father always helped on the farm while he was there,which shows the spirit of Britain.My father was a special constable for the duration of the war,and my mother was a nurse.I'm happy to say that we all survived the war intact.Of course when the war finished I returned to Hull,to live with my parents.George Malcolm Cawthorne.

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