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This story was submitted to the Peoples War site by a volunteer from CSV on behalf of Edmund Albert Edwin Mole and has been added to the site with his/her permission and fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
I was evacuated during the war together with my mother my twin brothers qand my sister.
I was evacated from Birmingham to Stroud in Gloucestershire in 1941. It was late spring but as I was quite young I can't remeber all details.
I was billeted with a rural family, my mother the twin boys and my sisterwere billeted in a country house of some stature.
However the facilities available to my mother and siblings ie boiling water washroom etc was insufficient. Within a short while my mother and family of four was reduced by the death of both the boy twins, cause of death gastro - Enteritus.
Simply the most basic of hygiene facilities.
We were sent away for safety but in fact this was reversed.
My father came down to Gloucestershire and took the survivors away and only many years later told me that me that he would have rather that we had risk the bombs in birmingham than the hospitable care of being an evacuee

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