- Contributed by听
- chas_stammers
- People in story:听
- Charles William Stammers,Peter James Stammers,Albert Benjamin Stammers, Annie Lillian Stammers
- Location of story:听
- South East London
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4547027
- Contributed on:听
- 26 July 2005
From what my parents told me later, I must have been no older than 15 months.
I was awoken one evening. I was lying on a mattress on the floor of the back bedroom of our house in S.E London. My elder brother Peter was beside me.
Dad picked me up, carried me downstairs and out to the lawn where the Anderson shelter was located.It wasn't cold at all. I remember seeing lights in the sky over the park behind the the house. They must have been searchlights. The bombers heading for the docks came over our area (Bexley ) en route for the docks where my father (a machinist who had been rejected for active service) was a fire watcher some nights.
This is the only memory I have of WW2. It remains completely vivid, if undramatic. I don't recall any explosions. My parents told me that there were no air raids after 1943.
I was born July 1942, and as it wasn't winter I must have been no more than 15 months old.
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