- Contributed by听
- nottinghamcsv
- People in story:听
- Gwen Wlison, John William
- Location of story:听
- Blidworth and Farnsfield, Nottinghanshire
- Article ID:听
- A5322629
- Contributed on:听
- 25 August 2005
This story has been submitted to the People's War site by a volunteer from CSV / 大象传媒 Radio Nottingham on behalf of Gwen Wlison and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
I am now 84 and have been blind for the last seven years.
We moved from Leicestershire to Lyndhurst in Blidworth when I was 7 or 8 years old.
Two of my brothers, John William Hemsley and Edward Hemsley, were klled in a mining accident at Blidworth pit. I had another brother who went to the Middle East in the forces and got killed. The family had some very bad luck.
I worked in a factory in Mansfield during the war.
I saw the British plane which crahed in Farnsfield outside the village. I had gone to live in Farnsfield. I saw it come along Dale Lane towards Farnsfield and saw it come down over the first fields. The pilot died.
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