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I was evacuated to Kempton. There were 30 people with disabilities, many of whom were in wheelchairs and we were all transferred from Bournemouth to there and then towards the end of the war we were told it was safe to go back to Kent and the night we arrived back there was a great big exposion in a field out the back and so we all had to get out of bed and get to safety because they weren't sure how bad it was so it was quite a job getting everybody out of bed, into wheelchairs and down the stairs. I must have been nine or ten then. The school was called Robroy Home For Crippled Children. I used to hate that title.

I remember the ration cards. Our meals were very small but we had a lot of bread, tea and jam and bread and dripping; things like that. It was very unusual to get a boiled egg or cake and when you did you knew there was a visitor. We had plenty of stodgy food like semolina, gravy and custard. I can't eat any of those now!

I didn't know I had a family until I was sixteen. Then I found I had a mother who had been working on the ambulance services.

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