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I had three brothers who were all called up — one in the Army, one in the Air Force and one in the Navy.
My future husband was in the Navy although I didn’t meet him until after the war. His mother received telegrams three times that he was missing believed drowned but he returned safely home.

I was 11 years old when the war began and I was going to school in Maidenhead, I often had to walk to school from Burnham because the buses weren’t running. I got very fed up with school because we shared the school with all the evacuees and could only go for half days. At 13 and a half years old I went to work as a nursemaid to Lord Montgomery’s grandchildren. Their names were Michael and Martin and they were 3 and 4 years old. They lived in a long bungalow in Littlewick Green near Maidenhead. I worked for them for about two years, their dad was in the army as a Major all through the war.

Then he was posted to Scotland and I wouldn’t go to Scotland so that was unfortunately the end of my job with the Carvers.

So I got another job as a nurse maid in Burnham in the High Street to the Clear family were I stayed until I got married. In the mean time the bombs were falling all around especially fire bombs and one or two unexploded bombs landed near. As soon as the siren went off we went out into the garden into the Anderson shelter and stayed until the all clear went.

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