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We came to Bath at the beginning of the war from London because Aunt Rose, my father’s relative, lived here at 101 Wellesway, Bath. Her son, my father’s cousin, was Arnold Ridley — the writer of ‘the Ghost Train’ and was much better known as Mister Godfrey in ‘Dad’s Army’. I think he was as charming in real life. He lived here in a hollow down the hill. When I met him I was nine.
However we did not stay long as it was the phoney war. We went home and I was later evacuated, The sad part is that I think it was his brother will who had also gone through the first world war, was working in the admiralty in London. He was asked to fire watch on the Admiralty roof. He asked to be evacuated but it was not allowed. With shell-shock and the general affect of the first world war, very sadly he committed suicide. A tragic end.

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