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I was six years old when the war started and was living in London, I got evacuated to Dunstable but I really wanted to go back home to London. One day after school I stowed away in the back of a lorry that I thought would be going back to London, unfortunately it didn't and when I was found I was taken straight back to the place I was evacuated to. Another time I set off from Dunstable and started to try and walk back to London put was picked up by a man on a push bike who took me to the local police station who again took me back to Dunstable. After a while my mum took me and my siblings back to London and one time we went to an air-raid shelter under Smithfield's meat market while the London Docklands were being bombed. When I was about eight years old we had a Christmas party in the air-raid shelter. My Grandfather rescued people from a house that was bombed in Islington, sadly he died from pneumonia after being gassed but after his death he was awarded the British Empire Medal for his bravery, my Grandmother and father went to Buckingham Palace to collect the medal on my Grandfathers behalf. I was pleased that my Grandfather got this medal not for fighting but for saving people's lives.

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