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'During the war we were both children. At the start nine and by the end fifteen or sixteen. At eleven we joined the scouts [Tom] and St John's Ambulance Brigade Cadets [Barbara]. At fourteen scouts acted as messengers at the air-raid wardens' post but the cadets, from the age of eleven, helped out at first aid posts and at the Walsall Maternity Hospital, where we made swabs and sanitary towels, because they were so short of staff.
The boys were allowed half a day of from school at potato picking time to help with the harvest. '

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