- Contributed by
- Norman Burgess
- People in story:
- Winifred Burgess
- Location of story:
- Greenford, Old Middlesex
- Article ID:
- A1898995
- Contributed on:
- 18 October 2003
My mother was in the WVS for all of the war and spent some time in the blitzed areas of London in a canteen.
However, this story occurred nearer home. She was issuing ear plugs early on in the war, and had gone up one road and half way down another, when an elderly gentleman said plaintively, "I do have two ears, you know." You can guess what she had been doing.
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