A Bride's Story

THe war realy started for me when my future husband was on a 7 day pass so that we could be married. But before We were married he had received a telegram to return to Barracks.

So at 11:00 on 13th April 1940 we were married in a London registry ofiice, By 13:00hrs he has left for the barracks.

That was the last I saw of him until May 1945, I received a letter after he left that day in 1940 saying somewhere in England. The next I heard was a telegram from the war office saying missing in action believed killed.

Almost a year later a German radio program that gave the names of prisoner of war captives and my husbands name was given. It was almost a month later that the war office confirm that we was a prisoner of war.

During this time I was bomed out of my flat with my mother and we were evacuated to Finchley, I was working in a munition factory where I lost a finger after an accident with a machine. I was then evacuted to Chart Sutton in kent where I no lived with my mother and brother's and sister.

I worked on the Land army for a short time and then working on the trains cleaning out the boilers ect.

May 1945 I had an other telegram but this time from my husband saying that he was back in England.
I rushed arround putting banners and flags up so as to welcome him home and sute enough the following morning he turned up on our door step , and what a party we had then.

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