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This story was submitted to the People’s War Website by a volunteer from Derby CSV Action Desk on behalf of Gerald Towers and has been added with his permission. Mr Towers fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

At the beginning of the war I was evacuated to Warwick from Derby, but when we got there no one was expecting us so we were evacuated again to----Chellaston! Actually it was just as well as the place we went to in Warwick had an incendiary bomb there soon after we left.

When I was old enough I went into the RAF and after 3 weeks active service peace was declared and I came home. I was in Derby Market Place in my brand new uniform when a band of youths grabbed me and marched me round shoulder high – just like a hero.

I then went to Japan and found myself billeted with two people from Derby; I found this amazing, as all through my training I had never come across anyone from my hometown.

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