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This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War website by William and Elliot, pupils from Teversham Primary School on behalf of George Russell and has been added to the site with his permission. George Russell fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.

When the war first started I was at school. One boy came to school crying because his Dad said that if the Germans ever got as far as Dover they would drown all the children in his family. I can remember coaches coming through the village all full of very tired soldiers. The soldiers took over all the village halls and church halls and that鈥檚 where they lived. Sometimes they had film shows and we were allowed in to watch. One of my sisters was friendly with a soldier who worked in the cookhouse and sometimes we would go down and they would give us bags of dried apricots. Another sister was friendly with a soldier and they eventually got married.
An aircraft crashed at Aldreth and the news went round the school. We all went down there in the evening. The aircraft was practically undamaged; everybody was climbing all over it and taking all sorts of things from it. The next night we went down and there were guards everywhere. One of them fired a shot up into the air - we were so scared we didn鈥檛 stop running for about 2 miles!

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