- Contributed by听
- Essex Action Desk
- People in story:听
- Peter Roalf
- Location of story:听
- Ramsgate, Kent and Stafford
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4617920
- Contributed on:听
- 29 July 2005
I remember when I was in my early teens, because of food rationing, standing in queues before going to school in the morning waiting to get maybe a pound of tomatoes or a pound of offal. I walked the three miles to the shops.
Whilst at school in Ramsgate, from the playground I saw a Dornier aircraft dropping bombs on the shipping in the English Channel. I also saw a merchant ship blown up by a landmine. Ramsgate was riddled with underground shelters.
At the age of 13, along with my whole school, I was evacuated to Stafford for safety. We experienced four air raids there.
I went on to volunteer to join the Navy at the age of 17, joined up on the 22nd May 1945 and eventually completed 27 years service.
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