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Evacuee's journey

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Miss Kath Tiltman
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Monmouth
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Civilian
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A5236607
Contributed on:听
21 August 2005

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It was June 1944 when I was evacuated to somewhere near Monmouth. We left Headcorn station at 7.0am after leaving Rolvenden just after 6.0am. A doodlebug went over near the station just as we arrived and we were bundled onto the train. We stayed on the train all day from Headcorn to Monmouth. We should have stopped at Newport to be provided with food and tea but the train just went straight through without stopping. When we arrived at Monmouth we were provided with tea and then we were told where our billets were going to be. We ended up at a very old house called Philstone House with four other families and we stayed there until November 1944.

That journey was the longest any of the children had ever travelled, in those days most hadn鈥檛 been further than Headcorn. We were all very apprehensive. It was about midnight before we got to bed.

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