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- Ralph Foster
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- Ralph Foster
- Location of story:听
- Sidcup
- Article ID:听
- A2329049
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- 22 February 2004
In 1940 my mother, brother and myself moved from Dover to Sidcup to escape shelling, leaving my father behind to manage the Tru-form shoe shop.
After the Dover shop was bomb damaged father came to join us in Sidcup, where he took over the managership of the Dartford branch.
During Summer of 1944 when the doodle bugs began coming over, my brother Roland, aged 8 and myself aged 11 were evacuated alone to Whitefield,Manchester. Billetted with elderly couple who had two grown up sons. They were quite strict. Unfortunately my younger brother didn't settle and went back home to Sidcup leaving me behind.
Then the V2 rockets began and on Feb 8th 1945, Roland went out to meet dad coming home from work and was killed when a V2 rocket landed nearby to Berwick Crescent, Sidcup.
He is buried in Beaverwood Road cemetry, Chiselhurst with other civilian war dead.
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