Dunse Oral History Project

Polish Officers Billet

WW2 - Duns

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Catherine Feeney was born in 1944 and was 12 years old when her family moved into a property in Duns square which housed the paper shop, the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Labour offices. Dispensing cold liver oil, dried milk powder and orange juice from one and employment from the other. The attic rooms had previously been used for billeting Polish army officers and here Catherine describes the remnants of their sleeping arrangements and the decoration.