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From: "Michele" <>
Subject: Re: [WARBRIDES] Fw: (Warbrides) ARMISTICE DAY, VETERAN'S DAY, REMEMBERANCE DAY
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 22:49:51 -0600
Joan, thank you for sharing another moment in your life during WW2. I always enjoy reading them.
God bless all those who served.
Michèle
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From: Walter Stubbs
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Sent: Saturday 11 November 2000 14:02
Subject: [WARBRIDES] Fw: (Warbrides) ARMISTICE DAY, VETERAN'S DAY, REMEMBERANCE DAY
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From: Walter Stubbs <>
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Date: Friday, November 10, 2000 11:00 PM
Subject: (Warbrides) ARMISTICE DAY, VETERAN'S DAY, REMEMBERANCE DAY
Lorna May,
Your newsy letters to the web make my day, keep it up.
I was evacuated with my school at the end of August 1939 and billeted on
small diary farm and helped with farm chores.
We always remembered the War Dead on Armistance Day with the usual moments
of silence and red poppies. The war being very much on our minds when
sitting in air-raid shelters instead of doing school work. Of our school
chums who had brothers and fathers on ships at sea and others in Air Force &
Army. Of the Women in service and Land Army girls.
My mother was conscripted to work in a munitions factory as an inspector of
shells, she had never worked outside the home before. My sister was a member
of the ATS. Our London home was bombed Oct 15, 1940 and completely destroyed
and our next door neighbours killed. It was a blessing that my parents were
not home on this night.
I later worked at the Berkhamsted Telephone Exchange.
Met my future husband in 1942 shortly after he arrived in UK. he was sent on
TDY and we corresponded and he was able to visit our family when he had 3
day pass. This made his folks happy as he had a family to visit. Our dates
were walks along the Grand Union Canal where horses were used to pull the
barges North. We had to walk home after a movie date no buses run after 9pm.
We walked a lot and enjoyed the picturesque countryside, fields of corn
with red poppies, the water cress beds. The buses pulled little wagons with
wood to burn to make some kind of gas that supplied fuel to run, gas was
rationed.
Eating out, you could get powdered dried eggs on toast or beans on toast.
Coffee was made with liquid chicory. This made most Americans enjoy a cup of
tea. No fast food restuarants like today. We were married in 1944 and life
has been very good to us.
Well this should bring back a few memories to some, and we will remember our
War Dead and all that gave their lives in All Wars.
Joan Stubbs,
Va. USA.
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