- Contributed by听
- 大象传媒 LONDON CSV ACTION DESK
- People in story:听
- Mrs Doris Scott nee Davey & George Walter Scott
- Location of story:听
- Lambeth, London
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A3966618
- Contributed on:听
- 28 April 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War site by Annabel Pearcey of CSV on behalf of Mrs Doris McDermont and has been added to the site with her permission. the author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
Me and my boyfriend married on the bank holiday, 1st August 1943. I was 20 and he was 22 years old. We had met at Addington Street Primary School, Westminster Bridge Road. We started courting when I was 15. We were madly in love. George jointed Bomber Command in 1942 as an air gunner, based in Lincolnshire. I was in the ATS up in Derbyshire.
We managed to getleave at the same time to get married.
Our wedding was a brilliant day. My father organised it all, what we didn't have we borrowed! Our wedding photos make me cry now because I wish he was here with me now.
After we were married, we only saw each other twice in 7 months because of the difficulty in getting leave. We wrote to each other and he phoned me but it was very hard to be apart.
In March 1944, he went on a raid to Nurenburg, Germany and his plane was shot down. He was killed. The morning before I got the official telegram about his death, I heard on the 大象传媒 news broadcast that the bombing raid that night had lost 200 planes.
The war office sent me a telegram the day after the raid telling me that George was missing in action and that I wasn't to tell anyone incase he was trying to get back. Then on 5th July 1944, I got a letter confirming that George was dead and that he had been buried in Unter Essfeld, near Konigshofen, Lower Franconia, Germany.
It would have been his last flight for while because he had done so many missions he was due a break.
In 1980 I travelled to Germany to see where he was buried. I went with the British Legion. I found it extremely distressing. He died almost 50 years ago, but I still missed him.
I re-married in 1947 to George's best friend, Ted. We had all been at school together. We were married for 32 years until he died. We had 3 children, 2 daughters and a son.
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