- Contributed by听
- West Sussex Library Service
- People in story:听
- Aubrey Mills Arnell
- Location of story:听
- Worthing, West Sussex
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4262230
- Contributed on:听
- 24 June 2005
The last year of my schooling was at West Tarring Secondary Boys School. The school had just been opened in 1941 when I was 13 years old.
During this year, our class were Digging For Victory - by digging the school playing fields up. We were digging fairly close to one another when I put my fork into my pal's, Gerry Broxham, foot. He did forgive me!
On most Saturdays in 1941, I helped a Baker's roundsman ("Charlie" by name), deliver bread. The bakers were "Knight's" in Broadwater Street East.
Whilst delivering bread in Canterbury Road, West Worthing, the air raid siren sounded and I heard a German airplane very close overhead and then the sound of a bomb dropping. I emptied the bread out of the basket, laid as close to the fence as possible, and put the basket over my head! The bomb landed in St Andrew's Road, 200 yards away and the rubble from the bomb blast showered into Canterbury Road. I was hit on the back by something, but picked myself up and the bread, and carried on delivering!
I left school in 1942 and went to work as a general "dog's body" at the Town Hall.
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