New Bradwell

But before long, all of the commercial accommodation is filled up and the legislation is passed by the government to allow billeting in private houses.

I was at New Bradwell, a little village not far away.

I was billeted with a very, very nice couple.

They weren't very well off.

The father continued on the railways.

The railway worked in Wolverton, and they set up home in New Bradwell, that village that's now part of Milton Keynes.

As well as the two sons, James and Florence, they had another boy, Sidney, and six daughters.

James joined the Oxford Light Infantry around 1905 and in August 1914 he was called up from the reserves leaving his job as a carpenter in Northampton.