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- Severn Valley Railway
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- Private Freda Spicer
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- Army
- Article ID:听
- A6189078
- Contributed on:听
- 18 October 2005
I was a cook in the ATS at 1945; and a, friend of mine said," I had the iron Cross."
So I asked this gentleman," What did I have the iron Cross for?"
"Cos you killed the poor buggers!"
I came out in 1947 to get married. Stupid thing to do, but I was in love with a nice soldier named Eric.
Oh! Making aeroplanes, in the factories; wings. In the aluminium 'blocks' at Port Talbot...
I was driving a big gantry; piling the slabs of aluminium into the furnesses. We worked hard.
After the war.
Before the war, we were soldering 'flares' and then I went into the army.
That's me (points to photograph). Ah! Oh, oh! 1945.
Person with Freda: It was taken before...
Freda: They were going to transfer us to Germany.
The war wasn't quite over then. They had a lot of cleaning up to do.
I didn't go because I got out to get married.
so then I had to pay sixty pounds to get out of the army, got married. And I got married; I got out.
I was 19; ..20, 18,...19.and I had a year's 'medal' for continuous service
This memory was submitted to the People's War site by a volunteer from the Wyre Forest Volunteer Bureau from a recording made by Freda Spicer and has been added to the site with her permission
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