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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Teresa Parsons and has been added to the website on behalf of John Prina with his permission and he fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

I was evacuated from London in September 1939 aged 10 years and 9mths with several hundred other disabled boys, to a holiday camp taken over by the government called Broadreeds at Selsey Bill in Sussex. I stayed there for about a year. During that time I saw a lot of German aircraft going over and being met by Hurricanes and Spitfires. Near the camp was a gun emplacemnet and searchlight battery. Things became too dangerous and we were bombed out and moved to Peckforten Castle in Cheshire, where we stayed fro 3 mths. I was moved from there to Horsley Green, High Wycombe area. While there I was taken ill and went to hospital in Oxford fro surgery. I spent 3 mths there and returned to High Wycombe. I was there until 1943. After that we all went to Oakham, Rutland and lived in a hunting lodge with about 50 children, all physcially disabled. Although we didn't experience any air raids, we did see a lot of aircrft going over. I remember Rutland as a happy time and I was well cared for by London County Council. I returned home to my mother in 1945 age 16 yrs but my father died in 1939 just after I was evacuated.

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