- Contributed by听
- A7431347
- People in story:听
- Miss Letitia Ricketts
- Location of story:听
- North london
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4390274
- Contributed on:听
- 07 July 2005
On the day that war was declared miss Ricketts was only 7 she was on holiday with her parents in littlehampton. They were sitting on the beach eating ice-cream and a police man on a bike rode by telling them that war had been declared.
Her aunt had had a daughter during the first world war whilst her uncle was in france at passchenale where he was awarded a military medal then he received a bar her cousin died in 1933 but during the second world war the aunt had another daughter with 25 years between the two children.
In 1943 she had to take a scholarship exam and was given a place in latymers in edmundson. Miss rickets knows what the story is used for.
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