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Deb Roach of the CSV Action Desk at 大象传媒 Hereford and Worcester on behalf
of June Lock and has been added to the site with his/her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.I was seven when the war started, and lived in the countryside in Warickshire. My war was a comfortable experience really--being in the countryside, and not near any big cities, we were pretty much left alone.

We did have an air raid shelter though. My father build a shelter into the hillside. We lived on about 3 and 1/2 acres of land. We did go into the shelter when Coventry was being bombed.

I had two youger sisters- Sylvia was 5 and 1/2 and Sally was a baby. Sylvia and I had a "Siren Suit", which was a navy jacket and trousers. We had gas masks also. Whenever the siren went off we put our suits on, took the gas mask and went into the Shelter. Sally had a one piece baby outfit--which was khaki in colour and had a plastic see-through shield over the face part of the suite.

I do remember enemy planes trying to bomb Hamms Hall-- an electricity plant 6 miles away. That was probably 1940 - 1941. They never got the plant.

We did have random bombs dropped into the fields, and lots of farm animals were killed. As a child, I do remember not liking that.

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