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This story is contributed by Shirley Williams and added to the site with her permission.

The first bomb in Gwent landed near our home right at the top outside the village, probably about two fields from where we lived. And they were coming out for days after from Abergavenny to look at the crater, because it left this huge hole. But the morning after it dropped….my brother and I used to take a shortcut to the village school …and there was a stile at the bottom of the garden and we’d nip over there and across a couple of fields to school. And he got over the stile and kicked what he thought was a black rubber ball…and it was the cap off this bomb, just the other side of our garden hedge. Somehow or other my dad got in touch with our local policeman and he, we believe, sent it to Cardiff for examination. We did eventually have it back and my mother gave it, many years ago to one of my brothers, who says he hasn’t got it….we don’t know where in the family it went.

Also we had evacuees in the village here…my mother says there was a searchlight around here for a while and my dad was an ARP warden.

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