Passing Trains

My Mother told me of an occasion when, during the war she worked in Basingstoke and lived in Hook and she, her sister and her friend used to catch a train to work. On one occasion she said, that their train was unusually late, then a very long train pulled into the station that was full of troops, she later realised they where recently returned from the beaches of Dunkirk. Her sister herself and her friend fetched newspapers and cigaretts for the men and where given names and addresses of loved ones on scraps of paper to write to on the soldiers behalf and say that they where back in England and safe.

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