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Description
Mr. Page discusses the hunger among French civilians and watching children licking out empty meat tins. He also describes being billeted with a French family and their little girl crying for a goodbye kiss.
Transcription
Well I can't remember too much but I know there was a lot of canned food, we didn't have any no chicken or like that, no eggs or nothing, no eggs over there. The only time I seen an egg is when I come back to England. People were hungry I know that. And we used to, the can of meat would come in cans, you know, we’d throw the cans away and the kids who take their fingers and lick around the cans get the meat off of it, they were really hungry. I remember, we marched along and dropped so much off to each house and the French there expected to kiss them all before you left, you know, that's the truth. And well we were billeted in this house, the four of us, in this house, the officer knew which house we was in. I forgot a little girl there, forgot to kiss her. We signed up ready to go, she come hold up her hands and crying. The officer, “Page,” he says, “kiss the little girl so we can get started.” I’ll always remember that.