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I desperately wanted to be a Wren during the war but my mother wouldn't let me as she had been widowed quite young and i was needed to bring in the wage for the family.
I was working as a legal secretary for some lawyers in a small firm.

I met my husband at a dance but he wasn't a good dancer so we sat and talked instead. He was doing an agricultural degree so he could have been exempt from the army but he signed up anyway to the York and Lancaster Regiment.

He was due to go to Burma with the regiment and was getting excited about the prospect however just before they left he broke his ankle in a training exercise. He was very disappointed.

Everyone was following the slogan ' Dig for Victory' - there were no lawns, just gardens growing vegetables. I remember my husband was digging for victory with his leg in plaster.

We married in September 1944 - i wore a reddish dress and he wore civilian clothes as he didn't want to wear his uniform having not seen action. We saved up our ration coupons for ages to make a special fruit cake.

My husband went on to finish his degree at Reading University and continued to advise people how to keep crops going in the 'dig for victory' long after the war had finished.

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