Wartime Swaps

As a child during the war, I recall a regular trade in swaps of bits of shrapnel, foreign coins and military badges. My mother had a job on York station manning the tea rooms and the tea trollies which were wheeled onto the platform to serve the troops passing through. On weekends and school holidays I often had to be with her during her shift and then I received many foreign coins and badges of foreign (including German) forces.

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