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My father was away in the Merchant Navy and my mother was a local District Nurse for twenty six years. I remember my mother was on call to doctors at all hours day and night and she went everywhere on foot. People were not afraid to go out after dark.

My father brought food and ammunition back on the boats he served on, it was a very dangerous job, we never knew if he was coming home, he was never allowed to say where he was going. One of my friend's father went down on HMS Hood.

At the schools there were many evacuees from London, they were billeted in houses locally that had the room. I was particularly friendly with a boy from Tooting.

I remember bombs dropping in Hannington Place, Boscombe and Gloucester Road, Boscombe. There was a shop in Gloucester Road which was run by an elderly couple which had a direct hit and the old gentleman was found with his body shielding his wife, unfortunately they both died.

During the war there were lots of Canadian soldiers billeted in Bournemouth and my sister was engaged to one who drove a Bren Gun Carrier. On the day that they were due to embark they drove to our house in his Bren Gun Carrier to say goodbye, he and his brother were both killed on D-Day.

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