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- csvdevon
- People in story:听
- Isabelle Barker, June Hopkins, Baby Ann
- Location of story:听
- Brixham, S Devon
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A5824587
- Contributed on:听
- 20 September 2005
This story has been written onto the 大象传媒 People鈥檚 War website by CSV Storygatherer Carole on behalf of Isabelle Barker. The story has been added to the site with her permission. Isabelle Barker fully understands the terms and conditions of the site.
In 1943, after the arrival of the Americans in Brixham, my pal June (then Hamlin) and myself (Isabelle Smardon) were taking a neighbour鈥檚 baby, Anne, for a walk in her pushchair. We were in New Road, the main road into Brixham, when a jeep full of American soldiers passed us waving and cheering.
They threw a lot of things at us. Both June and I were very put out to think that GIs would throw anything at us, when they had passed we looked into the road to find lots of small packets all over the place, so we decided we would like to know what was inside these square packets (note we hadn鈥檛 had sweets or sugar for quite a few years by 1943, or very little, rationing and all that!).
When opening these little packets we thought it was sugar! (Mother had always told me never to take sweets or talk to strangers). So both June and I thought may be it was sugar. But not being certain we decided to give some to the baby! The baby seemed to enjoy it, saying 鈥淢ore!鈥; she hadn鈥檛 passed away or turned a funny colour, we thought let鈥檚 try it, so between the three of us we ate that sugar!.
Needless to say we did not tell our mothers.
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