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- 大象传媒 Southern Counties Radio
- People in story:听
- Mrs. Sylvia hill, (formerly Medhurst) Richard George Medhurst, Mrs. Edith Medhurst.
- Location of story:听
- London, SW.10
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4386567
- Contributed on:听
- 07 July 2005
This story was submitted to the Peoples War site by Jas from Global Information Centre Eastbourne and has been added to the website on behalf of Mrs Hill with her permission and she fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions
Is this a million to one chance?
In 1941 while my (then future) husband R.George medhurst was a student at Cambridge, his mother Mrs. Edith medhurst, wrote to tell him that a bomb had dropped opposite their house.
A piece of shrapnel went through the front window, through the double doors and into a bookcase where it embedded itself in the spine of a book:
The title of the book was "the shape of things to come" by H.G.Wells.
Considering that my husband a prolific collector of science fiction and had hundreds of books, it would be impossible to plan such an incident! I still have the original letters to prove this story.
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