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1940 I was evacuated from London to Totnes Devon until 1943 I went to school, but did not learn anything. On returning to London I lived in Lambeth where my Mother was.I became a member of the Junior Red Cross and meant I had a helmet(tin hat). One night, my older brother and I were putting sand on incendiary bombs, so was not in the flat with my Mother. I heard a bomb and ran under a concrete stairs at my home. The bomb must have landed and debris fell all around me. I cannot remember how long I was there before auxillery fire service came to rescue me. I told them I was OK and to rescue someone else . I was 16 years old. They dug me out there and then because the gas mains had been hit, so we walked through the flames where there was a gap. I was taken to hospital, then on to a rest centre. I think when I was dug out I told them about my Mother who was in the flat. She was killed. Being in the Red Cross I wanted to be a nurse, they sent me to a convalescent home in Hitchinbrooke Castle in Cambridgeshire.I stayed for one year as a Red Cross Nurse. I nursed airraid casualties and then the Eighth Army. In 1945 I went to Hackney Hospital to train as a State Registered Nurse.

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