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15 October 2014
WW2 - People's War

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Action Desk, 大象传媒 Radio Suffolk
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David Blythe
Location of story:听
Southwold
Background to story:听
Civilian Force
Article ID:听
A7354514
Contributed on:听
28 November 2005

From front door blown in at 55 Pier Ave, Southwold - our Army blew that one up.
German bomber later dropped a bomb in next door's garden, 3 houses gone completely, other one half gone, and our windows blown out I was at school and Pier Ave was flattened, I didn't know until mum came to meet me. We had to live with Grandad for a while, my sister Judith, and Mum Marjery. Then again we were bombed out (Grandmother Thunser, me and my Aunt Edna we were in the Morrison shelter. When a bomb dropped on local hotel in Marlborough Road and we were buried, ARP and fire service came to our rescue and dug us out, my sister was lucky as Grandad (Harry Chapman) picked her out of bed and carried her to the shelter, lucky the wall at front of shelter saved them in the blast, as they didn't quite make it to the shelter. Glad to be alive in 2005. Gillian Ann my wife 3 girls and grandchildren 3 boys and 5 girls.

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