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The day war broke out I was on my way to private evacuation in Winchelsea, Sussex. When I went to school after first 6 months we were evacuated and then came back to Earlsfield where I was lived throughout the war. My father was in the AFS (Auxillary Fire Service) and worked at the Prices Candle Factory. He then joined the NFS (National Fire Service). I remember his telling me once when he was in the docklands and went into a building up to the attick where two policeman were holding a bomb in a small bath of water. Another time his friend was on the fire escape also in docklands and the water pressure came through suddenly and knocked him into the fire sadly. Another recollection of his was a friend who dissappeared from a fire in Docklands and was found much later in Scotland and he had no idea how he got there. Prior to D-day dad was sports coach for the fire service and he went training down to New Haven to get ready to go on the D-day for france. They trained on plough fields pulling along hand pumps with their rifles. All my primary school years were spent in the air shelter. Sweets were rationed however charcoal buscuits weren't!

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