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Memoir (143pp ts) concerning his childhood in the Shoreditch area of London in the 1930s as the son of Polish immigrants, the poverty and cramped conditions in a house shared with another family, his participation in a holiday trip to Lithuania in July 1939 organised by the local Lithuanian church at which the family worshipped, the reception in Kaunas and accommodation at a 'children's colony' in the village of Gelgaudiskis along with children from other countries, his impressions of rural life in Lithuania, rumours of impending war and the enforced prolongation of the holiday after its outbreak in September 1939, return to Kaunas in preparation for a return home later that month, the journey back to England via Norway and his experience of wartime London before being sent to Wellingborough (Northamptonshire) to join his evacuated school, apprenticeship at a local printing firm on leaving school at 14, return to London in August 1941 where he remained until his call-up into the Army in December 1944, training at Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk) and service as a Clerk with the RAOC initially at Derby before proceeding to Egypt and the garrison at Abbassia (Cairo), where he saw out the war, including a period of duty guarding German prisoners of war at 380 POW Camp at Fayid, before returning home in 1948.
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Memoir (143pp ts) concerning his childhood in the Shoreditch area of London in the 1930s as the son of Polish immigrants, the poverty and cramped conditions in a house shared with another family, his participation in a holiday trip to Lithuania in July 1939 organised by the local Lithuanian church at which the family worshipped, the reception in Kaunas and accommodation at a 'children's colony' in the village of Gelgaudiskis along with children from other countries, his impressions of rural life in Lithuania, rumours of impending war and the enforced prolongation of the holiday after its outbreak in September 1939, return to Kaunas in preparation for a return home later that month, the journey back to England via Norway and his experience of wartime London before being sent to Wellingborough (Northamptonshire) to join his evacuated school, apprenticeship at a local printing firm on leaving school at 14, return to London in August 1941 where he remained until his call-up into the Army in December 1944, training at Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk) and service as a Clerk with the RAOC initially at Derby before proceeding to Egypt and the garrison at Abbassia (Cairo), where he saw out the war, including a period of duty guarding German prisoners of war at 380 POW Camp at Fayid, before returning home in 1948.
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