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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Judith Harridge of Leamington Library on behalf of Dorothy Richardson and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
My husband came home (we weren’t married then) and said I’ve got to go away on draft leave but we won’t be away long we’re going to Kenya. You know how they were in the army telling them tales! He said I’ll only be away a year and it was 1945 when he come back! He went all over the place.
I had a blue wedding dress and the traditional little halo hat. There was no time for a wedding meal. My mother had to rush round finding rations. I remember looking for a big jar of celery but we couldn’t find one. We had all kinds of odd things! We had some photographs taken. I remember when my husband came home the man across the road was a butcher and he gave us a joint of meat. The neighbours had got the flags out. My aunt was a dressmaker and she managed to get pieces of material for my daughter. We knew a tailor who made her a little camel coat. Shoes were on the ration.

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