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My dad Anthony David Dawkes was born in 1930 and joined up in 1948.[reports Rita Jolley] He was a youngster during the war.

Dad and his friend Maurice collected old newspapers and sold them, at the rate of one penny for a stone weight. Dad wanted to be a parachutist, and one day jumped out of a bedroom window with an umbrella!

Dad and Maurice pinched gun-sight from a shot down enemy arircraft and used it to replace fuse wire. It lasted for years.

My uncle Sergeant Greswold set up a spoof replica of Peterborough at Horsey Toll. He would set fire to barns to persuade the Germans think they'd hit the city.

Added N. Simmons 10.8.04.

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