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15 October 2014
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The CSV Action Desk at 大象传媒 Wiltshire
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John Edgar Smith,Brother Fred Edgar Smith and Sister Ann
Location of story:听
Bristol
Background to story:听
Civilian
Article ID:听
A4537244
Contributed on:听
25 July 2005

I was born on 16th August 1939. People still tease me and say 'Mr Hitler saw my nappies on the line and said that's it, we go to war'!
I thought I was an only child for five years, then my elder sister and brother came home from Yorkshire where they had been evacuated.
We had a wooden garage in the small village of Winford, outside Bristol, where furniture and valuables were kept. If an air raid was forcast we moved there to live.
When my sister, brother and I went to Yorkshire, we were laughed at for wearing shoes, not clogs. We couldn't understand their launguage because of their accent.
I once saw a bomber crash in Long Ashton. They were Polish, for a long time I thought they were German.
I lived on the main A38 and I can remember seeing miles of tanks going South. I was told later that they were going to the Normandy landings.

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