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My earliest Cornish war memory

In 1941 living in South London, North Surrey we were bombed twice nightly by the Germans and eventually it all got a bit uppity so we were sent down to a little school near Launceston, just over the border, actually the wrong side of the border from Cornwall.

A young assistant matron turned up, a lovely girl called Ann Tyrell. She was only a few years older than us and she was very pretty. She came from Chacewater.

My brothers and I had no where to stay in the Holidays once so she invited us to stay in Chacewater with her grandmother. Her grandmother made homemade sweets. Most delicious things, I remember them now they were purple like humbugs and we didn’t have sweets during the war – so we were very grateful for these sweets. I never found out what they were but they were delicious.

I am still in touch with Ann Tyrell now. She’s now Ann Hill and lives in Lifton. She is my oldest surviving friend.

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