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We lived in Whiteway Close, St. George during the war with my mother and sister and just 5 minutes before an air-raid, the budgie would get agitated and ring his bell and get his head under the bell continuously. He must have felt the vibrations through his feet like all creatures do when thunder is coming. Only this time it was the German aircraft. Then five minutes later the air-raid warning would go off and we would run to the Anderson Shelter picking the budgie cage up on the way.

One day, we were in school when we heard a clattering sound outside and when we went out later, we found out that a German Bomber had released bullets all along the road, which was Two Mile Hill. There is to this day, a bullet hole through the cockerel on the weather vane in St. Michaels Church, at the crossroads of Kingsway 鈥� St. George.

My father served on HMS Glorious Aircraft Carrier, which was sunk over the coast of Norway. The Glorious and the Ardent which were together; they were sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. My mother was having a cup of coffee when she noticed a man opposite reading a newspaper, the headline stated 鈥淗MS Glorious sunk in Norway 鈥� Narvic. My mother thought he was in Scotland!

When she applied for a widow鈥檚 pension, the man in charge stated that 鈥渉e could be missing and not dead鈥�. Very Distressing, I was only 9 yrs. old.

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