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- Chepstow Drill Hall
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- Tim Sainsbury-Chepstow Memories
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- Chepstow
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- Civilian
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- A4124035
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- 27 May 2005
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WARTIME MEMORIES OF CHEPSTOW BY TIM SAINSBURY(SOUTHAMPTON)
We lived in the farmhouse at Piercefield near Piercefield House,(which was pretty much intact in those days). When the air raid sirens went we used to go down into the cellars of Piercefield House where we had beds, food, oil lamps, etc. One night during an air raid we heard bombs whistling down, I can remember my father saying 鈥淭his is it鈥. Anyway the bomb, (or bombs), fell I believe in the rocks down near the Castle, the only bombs Chepstow received (?).
I was at St. Arvans School in the Autumn of 1940. A very low-flying German Bomber came over the school, low enough to see the men inside. We all thought we were going to be machine gunned. Anyway the plane flew on; I think it was damaged, there were rumours that it came down near Sudbrook.
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