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Freddy Harding was a resident at Fairfield Manor, Broadstairs, Kent sadly Freddy died a few days after he talked a bout his memories with Helen Kemp. His family have asked that this obituary goes on the 大象传媒 website in Freddy's memory.

Freddy Harding was born four days before Christmas at Deptford in South London, when the First World war was less than five months old.

Having joined his father's building business and trained as a plumber, his first experience of driving a motorcar came when he was fourteen, when never having sat behind the wheel before, he took on the job of driving his injured father home from the construction site. When he actually obtained his licence some time later, he found that he was one of the first to have taken a drving test, the test having been introduced only six months earlier.

Freddy was one of those people who had no fear of heights, taking on the job among others, of painting out company names on dockyard walls in London in 1939, suspended from ropes more than a hundred feet from the ground, in case German bombers might be able to use the massive lettering for target identification.

As a skilled builder in south-east London Freddy wasn't called up for some time after the start of the war, the authorities probably decided that he was more useful where he was, until the frequency of German air raids began to reduce

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