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Chapter 9.
Improving news.
The war was begining to change for better and things on the home front and things were becoming a little easier.When it was possible my mates in the various services would meet for the get togethers if they had a 48 or a 7 day leave pass. We met at the local pub for a sing song and an evening of ale swilling if the beer was on tap,but sometimes it was 'Shandies' only for a start untill later on in the evening when the best ale was drawn through the pumps.Songs like the 'White Cliffs of Dover','Roll out the Barrel'Lillee Marlene''Galway Bay'and as usual service songs often crept into the entertainment like 'Wer'e leaving Khartoum by the light of the Moon' 'Maggie Maggie May'and Sgt Navigator Dean Davies would entertain with some 32 verses from ''The Great ####### Contest of Windam on Pees''a real hilarious laugh with every verse.There are a number of others that are perhaps are a little unsuitable for this type of article but appears in full flow during the writing of my book.The evenings were always in a cheery go lucky atmosphere and kept us from worrying too much about the bad times we were suffering from,the nightly raids on our cities and the bad news at Sea,and from the war fronts abroad.

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