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15 October 2014
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Stories categorised in 'A Boyhood in a Wartime England by John Chappell'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
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A Boyhood in Wartime England; Part 1

I had two sisters, Jean and Molly; Jean was eleven in 1939 and Molly was six and we all lived together on...

A Boyhood in a Wartime England; Part 2

The Borough's schools and town hall and other public buildings, including the Education Office, as I...

A Boyhood In a Wartime England; Part 3

On one occasion in Dean Wood, Mr McLennan, calling the class register at four p.m. after a long afternoon...

A Boyhood in A Wartime England; Part 4

My cousin Ernest was already writing letters home from the Sind Desert in India: to me, his youthful face...

A Boyhood in a Wartime England; Part 5

On one uneasily spent night, as my two sisters and I sat quietly along with our grandparents in the house...

A Boyhood in a Wartime England: Part 6

My cousin George William, confined now in a German POW camp, informed my mother in one of his letters that...

A Boyhood in a Wartime England; Part 7

It was in 1941 that a British Halifax bomber, returning from a desperate night raid on Germany, in an...

A Boyhood in a Wartime England; Part 8

It was here, in a Sunday School class, before the theft, that I first came to meet John and Ernst, the...

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