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I was born in Ashby but happened to be in London during the bombing.
I contracted Polio before the war and was sent to various homes.

We were evacuated to Essex- our gas masks and labels attached to us.

The Germans started to bomb Essex so we were then sent to Torquay.
Bombing started in Torquay — the Education Secretary was on the beach with his son and this was strafed by German planes — he threw himself on top of the boy but was badly hurt himself.

All the boats in the harbour were assembled for Dunkirk — someone let the Germans know what was happening and there was a terrible raid on the harbour.

I then went back to London where they started to send 'Doodlebugs'.
We used to watch them and were very frightened in case they landed on us.

This story was told to Pam McGowan and submitted to the People's War Website by Lisa Reeves of CSV Action Desk Leicester on behalf of Beatrice Cooke and has been added with her permission.
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