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This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Alan Jeffery CSV from Kent County Library Services on behalf of Rita Moody n茅e Williams and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the sites terms and conditions.

Born in Gravesend my main occupation was as a trained nurse, in the War I was evacuated to Sudbury in Suffolk with Gravesend Secondary School for one year and then owing to so many air raids, moved to Exmouth, Devonshire where I met Mary Wood in 1943 and went on a two year course of nurses training at The Princess Christies nursery training course and then in 1945 to London to do a S.R.N. at Princess Beatrix Hospital, Earls Court, London.

In 1949 I went to Australia on the 拢10 Assisted Passage scheme, fed up with black-out and rationing and wanted a warm climate. En route to Australia I met my future husband, an Ulster man, ex-Parachute Regiment British army during World War Two; who went on to fight in Vietnam with the Australian Army, he also fought in Indonesia. He was wounded sixteen times and was awarded nineteen medals.

In 1967 I returned to Maidstone and bought Loase Vicarage and turned it into a Nursing Home and on the death of my husband, aged 56 years of age in 1982, I moved to Tankerton for retirement and peace. I went on world cruises for many years until 1997 and am now waiting to go up to the stars.

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