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Born in Birmingham in a storage room, under the stairs, during an air raid I am of course unable to have any recollections of what was going on.

I do have some vague memories of the end of the war and the period of r austerity rationing that followed.

I also remember well the stories told to me by my family of their wartime experiences

The most horrific one told by my farther who worked in an aircraft factory at Castle Bromwich Birmingham. And was also a member of a voluntary fire fighting party

Dad and his fellow fire fighters were fire fighting crew were fighting a fire, when an air raid started. Some of his crew, who were fighting another fire nearby, took part of the force of a bomb blast; one of dad鈥檚 best mates was thrown into the air and decapitated.

After the war ended the horrific experience had a long lasting effect on dad, coupled with the fact that two of his brothers were lost in France. And with the austerity that effected most peoples life鈥檚 dad suffered from frequent bouts of depression

The effects of the war for him lasted long after the cease-fire.

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