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- Wakefield Libraries & Information Services
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- CASTLEFORD
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- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A3023984
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- 20 September 2004
I was just 18 yrs old when I listened to NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN on 3 September 1939
"we are at war with Germany" I felt strangely elated not knowing what the future held, I was thinking how excting life might become.
Two years later my parents allowed me to marry my young man who had joined the R.A.F.V.R and was on embarkation leave. There was no time for long preparations, I went to Leeds alone and bought my dress, hat shoes and gloves. Sunday morning 13 JULY 1941 we were married at St Pauls and on the 16 July we said goodbye on Kirkgate Station in Wakefield.
Sunday morning 8 February I was standing on the front steps of the club which was my home, and I saw a Telegram boy cycling towards me - he handed me a red envelope containing a telegram - "Deeply regret to inform you that your husband LAC Sherwood lost his life as a result of enemy action in the Western Desert on the 6 February 1942 "
A letter followed confirming the telegram and a printed letter from King George expressing condolences.
Was that the end of the world - I thought so at the time, 62 yrs ago.
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