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Strangely enough — the line apparently for evacuating London seemed to go down the middle of one road which stopped about a mile away from us.

I was also going to be evacuated to New Zealand. I’d had the medical and all the rest of it. I don’t really remember too many details — my Mother had since filled me in with these, but one of the first ships was torpedoed and they scrubbed the whole thing, they said it wads too dangerous and risky. I think the same thing happened to Canada as well.

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Becky Barugh of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Alvin Mansfield and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

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• Just imagine the headlines!
• Underground tunnels
• Keep going, keep going…
• An extra egg
• What an anti-climax!
• In retrospect I was very lucky
• Swaps

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