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My father Ted Jones was serving in the Royal Navy as a Chief Petty Officer Writer. He had taken part in the...
It was Edith announcing that she was in Edinburgh and would arrive in Stonehaven about midnight with the...
Carol and her brother John were evacuated with her mother to Calford, from the East of London, Forest...
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