Abstract
During the Second World War I lived as a small child in the Sherwood Forest area. My father correctly determined that it was a safe place and that Hitler would have no designs on it. Apart from the Home Guard practising to defeat the Panzer Units with wooden rifles there was no hint of war. With 20/20 hindsight I see only two drawbacks: rationing and the ID card. The British government gave us all a number, which went right against the philosophy of the British people. When we reached an age of understanding or read Les Miserables, whichever came first, we realised just how compromised the British were at that time. As with other early memories, I can still recall the number JADJ/169/4. At the first decent moment the government got rid of these numbers. We were not going to be like those foreigners on the continent.
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