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To return to Idris.Towards the end of the war he was stationed at LAD Kineton.LAD stands for Light Air Detachemnt.He was very near Leamington Spa,so when he had leave he used to cycle home.He palled up with an army cookat that camp.I don't know what his name was.Idris always referred to him as Jock.One weekend leave in the summer ,Idris cycled home carrying some delicious beef dripping that Jock had given him on the quiet.He carried it in a valise strapped on his back, and what with the warm weather and his exertions on the bike ,he found to to his dismay that the dripping had melted in the valise and soaked right through his uniform.
As you can imagine,the weekend leave was spent boiling and cleaning his uniform and valise, and getting them ready for parade Monday morning.
When that weekend leave is mentioned we say,"Ooh do you remember?Wasn't it awful?Wasn't he a mess?" and then proceed to fall about laughing.
Idris was demobbed in 1946, and he and Mollie had the back room on the first floor of our house as their own sitting room,so they could have some privacy.
That was usually my bedroom and so I moved up to one of the bedrooms on the top floor at the front of the house.
Mollie and Idris eventually bought a house in Lillingotn and moved there with their daughter Mary.

CHAPTER XIII BOB

Bob was born next.He is ten years older than me,so that made him seventeen years old when war was declared.
He is quite different from Frank in looks.Whereas Frank had black hair and brown eyes,Bob had auburn hair and frecles.When he grinned he looked really cheeky and a lot like Mickey Rooney.
As I have mentioned ,he too worked at the Lockheed,in the Jig and Tool drawing office.
It was a reserved occupation and so in 1940 he joined the LDV (Local Defence Volunteers)
until eventually the 2nd Company Home Guard was formed.
They really did have to drill with broom sticks, and wore arm bands until rifles and uniforms were issued.The first uniforms were made of waxed denim

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