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Simon Coombs

Jun 15, 2026

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4:29
As
4:29
many as many children were, weren't they? But the four of them went and she met my dad there when they were both kids during those times.
4:41
And evidently they got on very well.
4:45
So there was only I think they were about 11 or 12, something like that.
4:50
But my grandmother was very poorly and she had TB.
4:55
So when they came back to London, they were looked after by the rest of the family, the extended family that rallied around and so on.
5:07
But my mother's dad was a dispatch rider during World War II, George.

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34:01
Yeah.

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