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War and a Family - Part 1icon for Story with photo

These were arranged on a kind of island along the centre of the open bed of the lorry, and the squad sat...

War and a Family - Part 2icon for Story with photo

She was good at making ends meet and unrationed fish helped a great deal, subject to the preliminary...

War and a Family Part - 3icon for Story with photo

While his father was in the army in that earlier war, being the eldest child, he had his duties then of...

War and a Family Part - 4icon for Story with photo

Along with neighbours he and his wife had done what they could to help the servicemen being landed at the...

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War and a Family Part - 5icon for Story with photo

However, what was not revealed until after his death in his mid-eighties, was that back in 1940, following...

War and a Family Part - 6icon for Story with photo

Graham Deacon, Special Constable, Metropolitan Police Force. Duisburg, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Essen,...

War and a Family Part - 7icon for Story with photo

Since leaving school he had made his career in the research laboratories of St Mary's Hospital in...

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F was specially favoured because big sister X worked right in the heart of things, in the embassy area of...

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