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I was about four or five years old during the war ... and lived in London. We stayed in a cottage that was owned by a friend of my fathers. Mum got a job in army munitions and Dad was based a Woolwich.

I can remember bombs dropping and being taken to a shelter and given hot cocoa to drink. The children - including me - enjoyed the air-raids because it meant we got biscuits, hot cocoa and the grown-ups would sing songs to us.

I can also remember being taken to the theatre ... the Woolwich Empire and the Greenwich Theatre. We saw Tommy Trinder and Max Wall. I was only five years old and my father was concerned that they might be too smutty. But Mum said we were too young and probably wouldn't understand it anyway!

The theatre was very popular - and my mum loved going out.

Dad was sent to Italy and France. He loved Italy but my mother was very suspicious of Italian women!

Dad liked to entertain everyone ... he could play the accordian, mouth organ and ukele. We would all sit around singing songs while he played. He also entertained the troops with his music ...

When Dad came home, we moved to Cheshire. I can remember seeing the POWs being marched up and down the roads for exercise ... they looked so young.

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