Stan Rhymes’ Story

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Stan Rhymes from Oxford speaks with his daughter, Mandy, about his memories of VE Day and the time just after the end of the war. Stan was in the navy at the time in Norfolk. He remembers catching a train home to Oxford with a Scottish friend, who they affectionately called ‘Wee Jock’. They had been given three days leave to celebrate and told they could go home if there was time to get there and back within the three days His mother never locked the front door in case he or his brothers returned home from the war and wanted somewhere to stay. He says they were treated as heroes and the locals bought them their drinks in his village pub in New Marston.