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Phil Kelsey: WWII demob 1940s

I never come out until 1946.  Funny thing always was, I was called up before a lot of them and demobbed after them all.
I missed any celebrations they had.  They had it before I come home.  The council had a celebratory dinner and I was still away.
Quite frankly I didn’t know what to do.  I messed about for a long time.  I took the full length of the leave we were allowed.  I didn’t know what to do.  I did try to get in the Prison Service.  I can remember going in there and interviewed by a bloke and we were talking for some time. Something happened and he had to go off, and I was sat there waiting and waiting and I got fed up and I walked out.  Phil Kelsey b 1920

Phil Kelsey c 1990

Phil Kelsey c 1990

Rodney Corbett: post WWII 1940s

Paddy Corbett WWII in Burma

Alec ‘Paddy’ Corbett WWII in Burma, photo Rod Corbett

My mother met my father in the second war, when he was in Royal Corps of Signal stationed at Golden Hill and she and my father were married in 1942.

When my father came back, I had to get to know him, after 3 years away. His Irish accent was so broad, I had to act as interpreter to people in Yarmouth. Rod Corbett b 1943