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I was 9 when the war started. I remember hearing the first air-raiod siren go off - I was terrified.
Mother came running out with a table cloth to get our attention shouting "Come here Quick" At school we had practice drills. I hated the gas mask.It stunk of rubber and I felt as though I was suffocating.
There worst thing for me was breing short of sweets! I remember getting little 1d bars of chocolate.
When I was 12 my little brother was born so I got his sweet ration too !
We had aunts in Australia so they would send us food parcels of tinned dried friut, butter,sugar.. but no sweets. I was going to be evacuated to Sydney but the ship that left immediately before ours (going to Canada) was torpedoed so the ships were stopped after that so I had a near miss...

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