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When I was about nine there was a Canadian troop based about three miles away in East Hamstead. We children didn鈥檛 know why they were there, it was 1944 and later I found out they were part of the invasion force across the Channel. We as little boys followed them, three of us marched with them back to base. We asked them, 鈥淕ot any gum chum?!鈥� When we got to the camp one of the soldiers opened a great big cupboard full of sweets. He said we could have one thing each so I chose a big bar of chocolate. So we ran home and I showed it to my mother. At the time there was four of us in the house 鈥� my brother, grandfather and my mum. My mother said we鈥檒l have one square every Sunday cut into small pieces. That lasted us fifteen weeks or so. It tasted wonderful, I couldn鈥檛 remember ever eating chocolate before. It was fantastic.

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