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(This story was submitted to the Peoples War website by a volunteer at the Bletchley Park VE Day street party on behalf of Rosemary Mason and has been added to the site with his permission. Rosemary fully understands the sites terms and conditions).

In early August 1944 my mother Ellen my brother and I visited my Aunt Mary and Uncle George in High Wycombe. We went from Marylebone station on the early morning WORKAMS ticket as it was cheaper and my mother only had money from the army as my father Thomas was serving with the 8th Army. We spent the day with my aunt, uncle and cousins but when we got to Wycombe station there were no trains. We had no where to stay as my aunts home was too small to house us, so we were sent to a rest centre for the night. We returned home to Fulham London the next day but the matron of the rest centre advised us to return for a week as a holiday. We did, but as we were in a special war zone we were asked to go to a destination unknown. We went off in a charabanc and travelled most of the day and eventually arrived in Sherborne in Dorset where we stayed until March 1945. We lived in a converted hotel which had previously housed the American troops who were still based just outside the town. While there in the Christmas of 1944 the Americans gave a party at the local cinema for all the children and we had ice cream for the first time in years.

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