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My earliest recollection concerning a wartime experience was when I was a baby (1-year old in 1941) being pushed in a pram by my brother, David (5 years old), through the streets of Ilford (or perhaps Chingford), E. London. It was in the aftermath of an incendiary raid and I vividly recall David pushing me in the pram, and spitting at the flames. I later learned that one bomb came through the roof and went right through the cot where I鈥檇 normally have been sleeping.

In 1944 I was evacuated with my mother and younger brother, Pip, to Hannington, Northants, where we lived together at West Farm and stayed until 1957. My mother worked as housekeeper during this period, after moving from E. London, where she had worked in an ammunitions factory.

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