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I really would have preferred to go and fight but the powers that be decided that I was more use in electrics, so I was conscripted into the Home Guard along with my brother Ron. It was a job to fit in all our Home Guard duties with all our other work. One night our Commanding Officer told us we were going to have a mock emergency call out. The man who lived nearest HQ went to fetch the next nearest and so on. We had to wear our great coat, leather gaiters, tin hat and rifle. We lived the furthest away so once the last man before had woke me up and we had got down to HQ they had all left to do the manoeuvre. I had to wait for them all to come back, what they should have done was pick us all up in the lorry as they went out! I didn鈥檛 get home until 4am and all I had done was wait around! I still had to at work by 8am, what a night.

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