These and ration books were obtained from the labour exchange beside Sam Harding’s Cafe where Westerham Garage now stands. Don Adams “…you couldn’t go out without your identity card, I’d be stopped three times between Westerham and Crockham Hill where I worked on the farm. It just built and built, there were tanks all the way ...
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Arthur Waterhouse “…I went home and got my kit and my mother said ‘I’m coming with you’ but I said ‘oh no you’re not, you just stay here at home’. I went down to the Drill Hall and they were all turning up – they’d had their papers too, lots of them…” Mons Bell “…in 1939 ...
Reference: 0079
Arthur Waterhouse was born in Wintle Cottages in Madan Road in 1915, the year of the first Zeppelin air-raid on London “…In 1939 I received my call-up papers on top of a bus – he laughs at this – I was going home one afternoon to see my mum when I heard a motorbike coming ...
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