From Jimmy, age 6:
"While Dad was overseas in the RAF, my mother was enjoying herself so much that she went out on the razzle at nights, whilst I was left alone at home"
Later on, still during the war, his parents divorced and his father "took up" with a WREN while his mother started seeing a GI. No wonder the Kirk was concerned about the breakdown in traditional family structures!
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VE Day in Scotland
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