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This story was submitted to the People`s War site by Alan Magson of Age Concern, Bradford and District on behalf of Angela Jones, and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site`s terms and conditions.

I was born in 1941, on the very day my father received his call-up papers. Because my father and mother had to go out to work I was fostered out to a refugee family from the Channel Islands.
My sister was also fostered out to a family in Bradford, so we were split up for most of the war years.
I remember the Nursery on Cooper Lane, Bradford and being taken underground when the bombing hit Bradford.
My mother was a burler and mender during the war and she must have received hundreds of letters from my father as I remember four sacks full of his letters in the attic room at home.
My mother related an incident that my father had told her about whilst my father was in Malta serving with the Air Sea Rescue.
He, my father was to deliver a despatch note to Lord Mountbatten 鈥� and to attract Lord Mountbatten`s attention, my father touched his shoulder. Immediately he turned on my father saying 鈥� Get your filthy hands off me, soldier鈥�.
After the war I was returned to my own family and apparently I screamed and screamed when my foster parents returned me to my mother and father. My foster parents wanted to take me back with them to the Channel Islands but my father refused to let me go ! My sister and I were reunited sometime later.

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