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- A7431347
- People in story:Ìý
- Mr M J Perez
- Location of story:Ìý
- Liverpool
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4389357
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 07 July 2005
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Harry Farnfield and Jack Castle from Bodsham Primary School and has been added to the website on behalf of M.J. Perez with his permission and they fully understand the site’s terms and conditions.
MR. M.J. PEREZ’S STORY
I was brought up in Cairo in Egypt. I was 11 when the war started, I heard that war was declared on the English wireless I wasn’t evacuated. I was abroad in Egypt till 1944 in Cairo. At the age of 13 I came to school in England. I travelled in a troop ship and we sat outside Liverpool for several days until it was safe to to go in to port. I stayed with my aunt and uncle in London. Our house wasn’t bombed and I didn’t know anyone who got bombed. I was very happy then when I was old enough I got a job of a farmer because I wasn’t old enough to join the army.
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