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The declaration of war
The following Sunday morning, Wesley went as usual to morning service at the Methodist Church:
“I was at Chapel at the time and just before the sermon, one of the elders got up and announced that war had been declared. Children, to our great joy, were sent home from morning Sunday School.”
Helena Giblenn was at the service in the Baptist Chapel at the same time:
“It was a Sunday and we’d gone to Sunday School and when we got back, I should think that either Mum or Dad would say war had been declared, but when I heard it given out over the radio when we were eating our Sunday lunch, I can remember feeling positively sick.”
Wesley Scarrott’s reactions were very different:
“I think I was too young to appreciate what the village as a whole thought, but certainly as a child one saw it as a big adventure. One could not grow up fast enough to join one of the armed forces and I think a lot of the young men perhaps felt the same way.”
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