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Growing up in wartime Kingswear

by Ian Maxted

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Contributed by 
Ian Maxted
People in story: 
Reg Little
Location of story: 
Kingswear, Devon
Background to story: 
Army
Article ID: 
A1164043
Contributed on: 
03 September 2003

I have placed the story of Reg Little growing up in wartime Kingswear between the ages of 12 and 18 on Devon's website at http://www.devon.gov.uk/library/locstudy/test-lit.html.About links He talks of life with the scouts, the small boats of Dunkirk, work as a Civil Defence messenger, air raids and preparations for the D-Day landings. There is also a separate page of testimony on the Free French Forces at Kingswear at http://www.devon.gov.uk/library/locstudy/test-lit2.html.About links

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