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Bexhill Hospital Bombed
I was a nurse living in the Bexhill Hospital Nurses Home. In about 1943-44 at 10am one evening, we heard bombs dropped nearby. An Air Raid Warden came and shouted ‘All Nurses Wanted in the Hospital.’ Four bombs had been dropped across the front of the hospital. Our front door had been blown in, and we had to go out of the side door. There were wires down everywhere, and the steps were shattered, so we climbed up the grass bank to the hospital. All the doors and windows were blown in and the roof was damaged. Luckily the patients were unhurt, as their beds were between the windows. The Air Raid Wardens swept all the glass as much as possible, and wheeled all the beds into the corridors, where the patients stayed the night.

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