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This story is about my grandad,he was born and bred in Cowie,near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire Scotland. He married my Nan and moved eventually to Ormskirk, Lancs. When war broke out he enlisted for the RAF but he had always suffered ill health and was sent back home, he re-enlisted but was once again ill and was once again sent home. Desperate to help in any way he could he helped to guard Ormskirk Hospital and drive ambulances during the blitzes on Liverpool. He also helped to lite the bonfires on fields,which later became Skelmsdale,to try to fool the german bombers into dropping their bombs onto fields rather than Liverpool Docks.
During one of these attacks on Liverpool the german bombers landed a direct hit on the Bryant and May match factory in Bootle. Obviously he was called to assist in any way he could. On the way way out of the door he passed my nan a packet of cigerettes and said that if it got too bad to try one of them...(she smoked for 40 years after that day) he left to assist in the ambulance and after 3 nights and days returned home to Ormskirk to inform nan and my mum that he was ok.
I know he was shocked about what he saw during those days and nights and now at the age of 91 he still doesn`t like talking about it but i know that they had to use doors as stretchers to carry both the dead and wounded to safer areas. He saw people burnt to a cinder but barely alive and children wandering around clutching toys searching for their parents and relatives. He said once that if he could erase one thought from his memory it would be that one. To many he will never be a hero that fought on the beaches or flew planes that saved us in the battle of Britain or sailed past U-boats trying to keep the water passages to America safe and nobody will ever want to interview him to put his story on the TV or radio but in my eyes he is a HERO and did what he could to help us win the war. I`d like to personally thank him and everybody else who did the slightest thing to enable us to defeat the nazi regime and preserve the live style that we all live today. THANKYOU ALL AND GOD BLESS.
John A Brady

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