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It was a bad time, but I think the First World War was worse.

You had to see the funny side of things, if you didn’t you’d go under, you really would: you’d take everybody’s sorrow I with you.

You had to have a laugh on the side you know; especially when you walked in the dark to go to the pictures or anything (Even though we didn’t go to the pictures very often). You had to have a little torch to shine on your feet; otherwise you couldn’t see where you were going!

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Becky Barugh of the ��ѿ��ý Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Dorothy Cottis and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

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• Red skies for miles
• I must have looked nuts!
• I had to collect my own flowers!
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• They went to work in slippers
• ”Ping Ping”

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