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During the war I lived in Sutton, which suffered a lot from the tale-end of bombing raids. In the school holidays, I was sent to my Aunt's in East Grinstead. The house was called "Tudor Cottage" (now Foxes Acre), with huge gardens that backed on to an empty stately home. There was an Anderson shelter in the garden which we used during air-raids.

At that time McIndoe was doing ground breaking work treating the burns of wounded airmen. After treatment, the airmen were encouraged to mix with the local population, walk round the town and go to people's houses for tea etc.

As children, we were told that we must never show horror or disgust, but smile at them and say "hello". The image I particularly remember is a man with his face joined to his upper arm where his skin graft had been made.

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