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I was born in 1941, on the Barbican, Plymouth. My mother told me that whilst I was still only a couple of months old, it was the time of the heavy bombing in Plymouth. I was taken by my mother, with my sisters, to a large communal air-raid shelter, which had two sections, in Stillman St near Bretonside. We went into the left-hand side and others were directed into the right-hand side. After a short while, the right-hand side of the shelter received a direct hit and a number of people were killed.

So, all I can say of my WW II experience is that my mother, in her wisdom, chose to go to the left-hand side. My father was serving away with the Royal Marines at the time.

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