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When I was ten years old, I hadn’t seen my eldest brother Jimmy since he went off to war in 1939, and in 1941 he was killed when his ship was bombed off Crete. Pa kept the telegram with its awful news from Ma for a week, and I just don’t want to imagine how he must have felt; how he broke it her after that endless agonising week. I wasn’t even at home at that time, for my two sisters and I had been evacuated to Mansfield, in the Midlands. My eldest sister, Theresa broke the news to Tilly ( my... Sign in to see full entry.