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Len’s father was in a reserve occupation and therefore not required for military service but he did serve as an officer in the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard. The front room of the family home was regularly used as a classroom in which to train/lecture his soldiers.
Southampton suffered badly from enemy bombing and Len recalls seeing the first barrage balloons flying over the city.

Just prior to D-Day there was a massive build-up of soldiers in the city, with British soldiers occupying one area and Americans another. When Len was just 9 years old he remembers being taken to the waterfront to see the build-up of landing craft and ships in the docks.

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