大象传媒

I am not sure what year this happened, but it was about 3 years before the end of the war. My great aunt, Mary was in her house with her sister. She was sitting in the bath, when she heard a V1 approaching, she was just getting out of the bath, when the engine of the bomb cut out... It landed about 200 metres from her house and completley demolished a row of houses on the other side of the road. The windows at the back of her house looking onto the garden shattered, one of these was the window of the bathroom. My aunt got bits of glass stuck in her, and she still shows me the scars today, they are all over her hands. Her sister was in the living room at the time, and part of the wall was demolished, but she was only slightly hurt. My great aunt was taken to hospital, where she was treated for the cuts on her arms and legs. A few weeks after she came home from hospital, she was asked to play the organ in the wedding in the church at the top of her road (she was and still is a very good piano and organ player). She also played tennis, and had a match orgaised about half an hour after the wedding. She played in the service in her tennis clothes, and did not stay for the celebrations after, but went straight to her tennis game which was about 40 minutes walk away. About an hour later, a bomb was dropped right by the church, blowing the roof and part of the walls apart. A lucky escape...

漏 Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. Find out how you can use this.