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We lived in 3 Denis Park Crescent, Wimbledon SW20, my brother Allan, parents George and Doris. I was eight. My brother and I were evacuated with the school September 1939.

We had gas masks and a little case with bits and pieces; a few clothes and a sandwich. We assembled at Dun Donald Road Primary School. It was a non-school day, which was strange. Then we walked up to the railway station. We were kept away from the newspaper and news so we didn't really know what was going on. We went to Chichester by train. We were assembled in a hall and people came and selected. Eventually somebody came and took my brother and I. They had no children of their own. Eventually the husband got jealous so we were moved to somebody else. The people which took us already had an older evacuee, he was the Bulcher son.

When France fell my parents thought we'd be safer in London so they brought us home. It was back to normal. I must have been glad.

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