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In September 1940 when I was 14 years old, my father and I were standing outside the air raid shelter in Camberwell. He was assuring me that the aircraft flying overhead was "one of ours" when several bombs dropped on us. I was thrown across the road and was taken to another air raid shelter. Luckily I was completely unscathed, but my father was severely injured. He was dragged by a couple of very brave strangers who risked their own lives to take him to King's College Hospital in Denmark Hill.
The hospital staff were fantastic and operated on him immediately. Subsequently they found pieces of ammunition in his body from the 1914 -1918 war when he was wounded in France in the trenches!

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