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- People in story:听
- Trixie Sherratt
- Location of story:听
- Salisbury
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4333682
- Contributed on:听
- 02 July 2005
I lived in Salisbury during the war and I remember seeing some of the VIPs who visited, people like King Farouk and Princess Maria, they all came to Salisbury.
This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Mike Millington of CSV on behalf of Trixie Sherratt and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
One day when my brother and I were on our way home from school, the local blacksmith came past us on his bike. He said it was no good us going home for dinner because there was a tank in our house. We didn鈥檛 believe him and ran home only to find a Churchill tank backing out of our house. It had been on manoeuvres, and somehow it had crashed into the house bringing half the house wall down. There is still a definite mark today where the new building work took place.
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