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My grandparents kept a large public house called "Fultons" on Oxford Street, opposite the market at the centre of Swansea. My mother and I lived there and, when the war was over, my father was going to manage the public house. In February 1941, during the three night blitz in Swansea, the pub was bombed whilst we were in St Mary's air raid shelters. We were homeless but my Nanna and Bampa who lived in St. Thomas took us in and we lived with them, waiting until my father came home.

It was in October, 1942 that my mother received the telegram which said that my father was missing. His ship had been torpedoed on his way home from fighting in West Africa. My mother had lost her home and husband.

Beatrice Marion Garnett

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