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Bombadier Billy Wells earmarked Friday nights for his bath but second time around Gunner Chalky White asked...
The slopes of the Millbay Park were soon filled and the pavements became a resting place for the remainder....
We became bored with the waves of aircraft overhead and the Bren gun carriers which continually drove...
Mr. Naden, our teacher, met at our house with me and four other boys and we had lessons with homework for...
When we got to Chester we walked with our cases to the nearest Church hall and stood there while people who...
The bomb disposal squad said it was a 250 kilo bomb and they could not understand why it did not go off....
In August 1939 I well remember reading in the Sunday papers about The Nazi-Soviet Pact which was a signal...
From there, I was sent up to my Aunt's in Bradshott, just ooutside Selborne, and there I joined the...
My eldest brother Fred was in the RAF and the two youngest had been evacuated... My elder brother Fred and...
My father was a policeman and when a German air man bailed out in Quintin Avenue, he saw him at the police...
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