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This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Norman Wigley of the 大象传媒 Radio Sheffield Action Desk on behalf of Mr Albert M Youd and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.

I was six in 1939 and we lived at Crookham near Aldershot; my father was a sergeant at Queen Alexandra鈥檚 Barracks.

In 1941 I remember going with him to Aldershot Station and watched what I thought looked like a train of cattle trucks roll into the station full of troops returning from Dunkirk. I remember that most of them had hardly any clothing left, some didn鈥檛 even have any trousers. They were dejected. Later that day I was given a job to collect books and magazines for them to read while they were billeted at the barracks.

I can also remember the Battle of Britain and remember seeing the aeroplanes diving, and we thought they were firing at us because the spent shell cases were dropping on house rooves nearby.

My father was Joseph Youd who served with RAMC and finished his service as RSM in 1947. he landed with the BEF in 1940 and was evacuated back to the UK.

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