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by RegKelly

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RegKelly
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Manchester
Background to story: 
Army
Article ID: 
A1993340
Contributed on: 
08 November 2003

I was eleven years old at Christmas 1939 and remember my Dad `shussing` me while we listened to Neville Chamberlain telling us we were at war. we lived on Oldham Rd,Newton Heath, Manchester opposite Dob Lane School.

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