Daddy's life with Mummy.

I don't know how they met, but they married on November 11th,1939 at Nevendon parish church in Essex and I think Dad's best man was Doug Samways.His partner Stella Davies and Joan King were Mum's bridesmaids.Joan was the daughter of my maternal grandmother's best friends Ethel and Clarence.Her siblings were Tony,Mabel and Jean.Jean used to cut my hair as a child and she trained at Teasy-Weasy Raymond in London.Mum carried a huge bouquet of real poppies.My maternal grandad was a military man and had been awarded a DCM for bravery in WW1 and he had them sent over from Flanders as it was Armistace day.When they married, my Mum,Jean was an air-raid patrol worker.My Dad,Reg was a regular soldier stationed in Manobier,Wales.He worked on Anti-aircraft in the Royal Artillery.In photos I can see his sergeant's stripes.My sister,Valerie was born in Wales and they lived with Mr.and Mrs.Ivor Brace in Jameston.At the end of 1940 with WW2 under way my mother brought her first born back to live with her mother because of the dangers.As she came through London she had to go for cover in air-raid shelters.My sister was a beautiful blue-eyed baby and Mummy said people stopped her and said "You shouldn't be down here with the baby."Over the next years as Daddy carried on as a soldier Mummy would only see Daddy when he was on leave but during the next eight years Mummy had another three children,Jonathan Victor,David Terence Reginald and myself,Madeleine Helen.They both worked hard to provide for us.