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- brssouthglosproject
- People in story:听
- Brian Nolan and Family
- Location of story:听
- Nr Belfast
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A5927312
- Contributed on:听
- 27 September 2005
Got Any gum Chum?
My family and my pregnant mother were evacuated to Dun Patrick in Northern Ireland and I was born there during January 1940.
I can remember the American Soldiers marching along, in 1944. I realised afterwards that they were practising for the D Day landings. We, my brother and I, aged 6 and 4 years old respectively cadged chewing gum 鈥淗ave you got any gum chum?鈥.
We Collected ammunition chips from the hedges they may have been 鈥榣ive鈥 we didn鈥檛 know or care it was just exciting to find them.
I can also remember being called out by my grandparents at night to see the bombers being highlighted by the searchlights. They were bombing the Belfast Shipbuilding works and aircraft carrier builders Harland and Wollfe.
We were a family of farmers there and so we ate well, rationing did not trouble us. So we were quite fortunate really.
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