- Contributed byÌý
- shropshirelibraries
- People in story:Ìý
- Jean Allen
- Location of story:Ìý
- Sutton Coldfield
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4045042
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 10 May 2005
My first recollection of the war is someone shouting "Put that light out don't you know there 's a war on!!!" I also remember being in Sutton Park helping to fill sand bags at the age of 18. I became a children's nurse and I can recall the light bulbs being painted black to dim them, We knew it as the phoney war. It was all preparation for the real thing. I went on to be a general nurse. We had to learn how do do a firemans lift and also how tp put out incendary bombs.
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