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This story was submitted to the People's War website by Claire Shaw on behalf of Mr Dudley J. Pascoe, the author and has been added to the website with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

On the evening of October 9th 1940 I went to my Night School Class and because there were too many students there, the teacher advised me to attend the class later in the week. Having nothing better to do I went down to my Church, Falmouth Methodist Church on the Moor, where I knew my brother's would be and joined them.

The German's bombed the Church that evening and when the bomb exploded- sadly killing several people- I was making my way out of the Church. I retraced my steps my steps back to the school room where my brothers were and because I knew where the gas and electricity mains were, decided to turn them off (thus preventing a possible fire). In so doing lost my glasses. Covered in black dust, I hastily made my way out of the church along with a number of others, wih debris falling around us. Later that week there appeared a headline in one of the National Daily Newspapers- "Boy who loses glasses saves church in the South West" (there being no indication as to where it was for security reasons).

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