He [her father] was in France. And then France fell but- and he caught the last boat, I seem to remember. To Plymouth. And he had nothing except the clothes he stood up in. We [she and her sister] had to give him- I remember out of our pocket money we had the buy him brush and comb and handkerchiefs and he had nothing – absolutely nothing.
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