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So I thought, well, if I'm going to be in the Land Army I might as well live near my mother, who...
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Plane crashes, bombing, and strafing near Warboys Warboys was in flat fenland and nearby were three RAF...
Patrols would consist of two people and could mean patrolling between Bakewell and Ashford-in-the-Water or...
There was some competition between the Land Army girls and local lassies, but the “Demob Lads”...
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Reaching Dunkirk we destroyed the guns and drove the lorries over the cliffs, and believe it or not our...
Water was obtained from a well, also in the garden, but conveyed to the house with the aid of a pump at...
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The non religious villagers frequented one or other of the two public houses, the posh one went to the Red...
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