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German bombing of Britain did not begin in earnest until August 1940, nearly a year after the war started,...
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We stayed in Roby while the ‘Admiral Graf Spee’ was sunk and ‘Warspite’ saw off a...
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One Saturday Roy Crossley and I went to Aberystwyth, with Mr Lloyd in the pony and trap, as we both had to...
Christmas 1946 Wynne's Mum and Dad asked me if I would like to spend Christmas with them at their home...
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I next proceeded back to the boat deck and there still being no officer in sight, in charge of P2, I went...
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We learned more Geography: Salerno, "a holiday with pay"; Anzio and Sangro, "they're just...
My sister and I were then evacuated to a farm in Little Horksley to stay with a Mr.& Mrs.Pearce, they...
Ossie's friend Cyril Wroe met him because he had been in the dramatic society before the war They had...
In late 1945, the Crosby Caledonian Society was founded - Sam Adie being a founder member and honorary...
Then I was taken up the grand staircase to a large room that was the day nursery, and introduced to the...
However, not long after we got back we were quite happy to go down into the cellar when we were warned that...
I had just turned 18 in the summer of 1940 and was working as a junior Civil Servant in the Public Trustee...
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While we were overjoyed to see him, we cried at the thought of going back to Liverpool, and Auntie Lila...
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