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‘ This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Dorothy Donn of Renfrewshire Libraries on behalf of Marcus Gatheral and has been added to the site with his/her permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.’

Around about 1940 soldiers passing through the village stopped for the night in the woods at the Engine Tees. Myself and friends, we would be about 8 years old at the time, in the evening went to the woods and were ‘enlisted’ by the soldiers to go to the chip shop. As I was buying a fish supper for one of the soldiers my father appeared, it was dark by then, to see where I had wandered to, then accompanied me back to the wood, and this is the crux of my story, I could not find the soldier who gave me the money, so I just handed it to the nearest soldier. In later years I felt guilty as I am certain the original soldier would be sure I had absconded with the money for his fish supper, 6d! A lot of dough at that time

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