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My full name is Edith Rowlandson, and I鈥檓 94 years old.
I鈥檇 been married a couple of years at the start of the war, and I kept on working. I worked at Chester Cold Storage, and in those days, everybody had to go there, because none of the shops had fridges. So they used to come and put the produce in and, next morning, come and take it out, for use. That was until they started getting fridges of their own. That happened by degrees, after the war ended, I suppose.
My eldest son was perhaps a week old. The rector, a Mr Sarson at Handbridge Church, he christened him, so that he (the baby) was christened before Jim, my husband, got on the train to go to the Middle East. So my child, Peter, was only about a week old when Jim went away. And Peter was going to school, and he was five years old, before he saw his father for the first time.
My husband was in the Cheshire Yeomanry, the Eaton estate branch. He was in Palestine. He made a lot of friends in the Middle East. My husband still stayed at Eaton Estate afterwards, because all the farm cottages were in need of repair.
I had three boys in the end.

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