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I was about 11 and living in Felsted in 1941. One day a number of lorries and tanks with yellow crosses on them came through the village. There was hand to hand fighting, jumping over hedges and all of the things that you see from film footage.

Eventually we realised that these people weren't Germans, and that this was all actually a Mock Invasion that had started from one of the coastal towns at least about 30 to 40 miles away, but I am not sure which one. We weren't told who was staging it, but it was all taken very seriously, with the Felsted School being a Military building.

My Mum would often take out cups of tea to our soldiers when they couldn't get into the base at Felsted School, and on this occasion she was doing the same even to the 'German' soldiers!

Then one morning we woke up to find that they had gone, possibly on to another location, or possibly they had finished at the School. We never did find out.

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