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My Brother Bert was doing up his shoes by the fire one time and all the soot came rushing down the chimney and he got covered in soot! He looked a sight, all you could see was his eyes! I said 鈥淕o and wash yourself Bert and then come and gave a cup of tea!鈥� He wasn鈥檛 actually crying, but he was all shook up, and so we gave him a cup of tea. (Good old cups of tea eh?) We used to have them all ready when we鈥檇 go down the dugout, we鈥檇 have a tray ready with a teapot, tea, coffee and sugar and everything. The dugout was in the garden 鈥� it was an old tin building in like a dugout, and we鈥檇 go in there and sleep. At night time when it got bad we鈥檇 go down there with our teapot and everything.

This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Becky Barugh of the 大象传媒 Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Doris Saunders and has been added to the site with her permission. Mrs Saunders fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

See more of Doris's stories:

• We weren鈥檛 prepared for war at all
• They鈥檇 all just started, like me
• That鈥檚 how we crossed paths
• You heard the 鈥渟wish鈥� of the rocket just before it landed on the house
• You鈥檇 see a queue and just jump on the end
• Climbing trees and fences
• We took notice that time!
• We had some fun with 鈥榚m
• He鈥檇 gone all the way round
• It was lucky I鈥檇 already got married

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