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- Action Desk, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Suffolk
- People in story:Ìý
- Peggy Osbourne (nee Steggles)
- Location of story:Ìý
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A5093642
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 15 August 2005
Peggy Osbourne
During the war, about 1944, I was a pupil at St Edmundsbury School in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, where my grandmother was the headmistress. At Christmastime, American servicemen from the nearby base, which I believe was Mildenhall, came to the school and gave us lots of different candies, including chewing gum. There were approximately 300 children at the school and eventually the Americans ran out of supplies so they went back to their base and got more. They sang Christmas carols to us, I remember especially Good King Wenceslas. We had a boy soprano at the school who was brilliant, I think his name was Bill Grindley.
It was a very happy time for us that Christmas.
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