The Medlock Train must be remembered by hundreds of troops as it carried them from England to Calais, which was then (1945) bombed flat.
I and my girlfriends had joined the YMCA as a means of getting abroad immediately after the war. We were to run canteens and rest centres for troops who had finished fighting but were still left out there. I ended up in a castle in Verona with Italian staff and we ran a leisure centre and had a band playing music all day.
-Mrs Novak, Hove
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