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When I was born I weighed 2 and a half pounds and I was incubator for seven weeks. I did not see my father til after the war he was at Dunkirk. From there he went to the western desert he was evacuated from Dunkirk on the Medway Queen on the way back the people of Headcorn fed him on the station. In 1943 he sent me a letter from Bethlhem, which I received 18 months ago it being lost in my family鈥檚 mail. Whilst in the Desert my father fitted a donkey with a set of shoes. In thoughs days the railway went from Dover to Fishguard in Wales. In the village of ewhurst in surrey I was I known as the Little heathen as I was not christened til after the war. I was christened with my younger brother who was born in 1946. During the war I had a good friend who was a evacuee whose birthday was the same as mine his name was Johnny Elvic. His father was in bombercommand who went missing one night over GermanyI had seen him the day before in Ewhurst in his uniform.
Johnny returned to Glasgow after the war, I lost contact with him. I remember the doodle bugs coming over ewhurst in the double summer time. One hit the farm in Gadbridge Lane killing the lady who lived there another one hit the gas works I cranliegh Surrey. When my father came home I did not know who he was and ran away. In a village in Sussex a farmer had a horse one day the horse disappeared and the next week the butcher had beef for sale Iwould hope the medway queen is turned into a national monument like hms victory in Portsmouth dock yard in the letter from (previously there are dried flowers from the western desert . I would like to find Johnny Elvic again. He was with his grandparents Mr and Mrs Brett broomers lane ewhurst Surrey.

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