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The memory that my father told me about the war was when he was an air-raid warden in London at the time and a bomb went up in Gee Street which is East London now, and he saw I say thank you to all of those who gave me my freedom today. My dad was William Frederick Walters
some terrible terrible sights, but one of the happiest moments that he had was when he actually pulled a young girl out of a coal hole, where they used to put the coal down the hole years ago down in the basement.

When the bomb went up, the whole of the house was flattened, but he managed to hear this girl, and he lifted up this coal hole and lifted the girl out by her hair. She always remembered that and she was fine.

One of the things he always told me was when the sirens went off and he was watching, when the German planes used to go over, he used to shout 鈥淐ome down here you, and fight like a man鈥�.

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