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- People in story:听
- Rose Davey and Jack Davey
- Location of story:听
- Orkney Islands
- Background to story:听
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:听
- A6208238
- Contributed on:听
- 19 October 2005
This story has been added to the website by CSV volunteer Owen Hazell on behalf of the author Rose Davey who is aware of the sites terms and conditions.
In 1944, I was writing to a man named Jack Davey, who was in the Navy. He was stationed in the Orkney Islands at this time. He was engaged in minesweeping in the North Sea.
Fruit was very scarce during the war years, bananas especially, so when I managed to get a banana, which I would have loved to have eaten, I decided to send it to Jack. So I lovingly wrapped it up and sent it to his base in the Orkney Islands.
In the mean time, he had moved to Antwerp and then to Dover, where he was minesweeping in the English Channel.
So by the time he received the banana, the skin was black and the banana a black mash, so he didnt appreciate my sacrifice for him.
We have now been married for 54 years. From that black banana love blossomed.
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