- Contributed by
- nottinghamcsv
- People in story:
- Kathleen Cowpe
- Location of story:
- Sutton In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
- Background to story:
- Civilian
- Article ID:
- A4167579
- Contributed on:
- 08 June 2005
"This story was submitted to the People's War site by CSV/BBC Radio Nottingham on behalf of Kathleen Cowpe with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions"
We had a big heavy black out curtain I used to draw pictures in chalk on it of teachers on the curtain and a picture of an Indian chief. It’s all very vivid still.
I feel privileged to have been through it. I’ve always wished I could have joined up, I always wanted to. When I was 10 I was at my aunties house, a woman came round, she asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up, I said “I’m going to join up and help win the war” — I had no idea it would be over by then, it never occurred to me as I’d grown up with it.
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