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I was 8 years old when the war started. I was interested in Radio’s and listened as the war went on to Military Messages.
At this time whilst I lived in Mansfield Woodhouse as a boy I noticed there were huge ammunition dumps in the area. They were situated all over Sherwood Forest. But these dumps were never bombed. In 1945 I remember that a mine was dropped onto the common near Woodhouse and also another one onto the brook. On occasions I stayed with my Grandmother in Nottingham and on one occasion a cannon shell went through my roof.
From 1940 I acted as a messenger boy for the home guard and ARP’s.

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