- Contributed by听
- A7431347
- People in story:听
- Clive Greaves
- Location of story:听
- Wembley London
- Article ID:听
- A4386521
- Contributed on:听
- 07 July 2005
This story was submitted to the peoples war site by Rory from St Nicholas c of e primary school in New Romney and has been added to the website on behalf of Mr Greaves with his permission and they fully understand the sites terms and conditions.
Clive Greaves was 3 when the war began.
He lived in Wembley with his mother and father.
His older brother was a pilot in the war.
He used to have to walk to school.
Sometimes he could hear the air raid sirens and he had been told either to run to the school shelter or to go home whichever was closer.
But he did not have a choice because his mother was deaf and could not hear the sirens so Clive had to rush home to warn her.
I was my mother鈥檚 ears.
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