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My name is Barbara Hagger and when war started I was nine years old, so I spent all of those years at school and I finished in 1945 when it was all over.
I had two sisters and two brothers. My eldest sister went into the WAAFS during the war and was stationed at Morecambe working for the G.P.O. and my other sister was working for Lloyds of London. Both my brothers did their National Service later on. We were living at the time of the war in Southall, and before that we lived in Purley, but we lost that home to a 'Doodle Bug'it landed on the shelter next door. Their son was in the RAF and one daughter was a nurse, but the parents and another daughter were all killed. We had been in the shelter for quite a few nights but we decided that night to take to our beds, and so as things go we were all quite safe. In Purley we were quite close to the main Croydon Airport mail line which they tried to bomb often. After that we moved to Caterham and made several visits to my grandmother at Brighton where I had been born. I laughed at the sign on the train when visiting grandmother 'Is Your Journey Really Necessary', we eventually moved back to Brighton.

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