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My lasting Memory of World War II is……being in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland at the age of 6 years seeing planes dodging around the searchlights over Belfast — over 21 miles away from where I stood. My father serving in the RAF from 1938—1946, we didn’t see him very often. He drove Queen Mary transporters lorries carrying aircraft wings. I came to Padgate across the sea from Larne to Stranrear because the rest of the sea was too heavily mined to be safe to cross. I was 7 years old.

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