Hitler, his part in my birth! [to blatantly pinch one of Spike Milligan's book titles!]

My mum, Ann McLellan of Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland, would never have left home of her own volition, but was conscripted to work in an Aircraft factory in Birmingham. Here she met my Dad, Albert Leonard Thomas, a Welshman [and ex Sailor] from the Mumbles near Swansea, Wales. Though both cautious folk in their thirties they married within three months. They gave me the happiest childhood ever and were truly the best Mum and Dad in the world. They are both gone now but live forever in my memory, I just wanted to write this so their story is in print somewhere, they prove that some wartime romances did last and that happiness can come from such dreadful circumstances. They produced me - a Welsh-looking Scottish person!

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