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This story has been entered on the site at Durham Light Infantry Museum by a member of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Bus team.
I was born in 1943, the youngest of 13 in "the terraces", Washington.
My Dad was a miner and in the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard.My eldest brother was on active service in Burma. Before he left he charged his best friend Tom Fisher who was 16, with the job of looking after my Mother, who was expecting me and helping to light the fires.
Tom was also in the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard even though he was so young.
While he was on duty he was killed with a discharge from a gun.
When I was born my family thought I would be a boy. Boy or girl my family wanted to call me after the lovely lad, with a a face like an angel who had died so young. Thats how I came to get my unusual name of Thomasina. I'm proud to be named after Tom Fisher.

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