- Contributed by听
- derbycsv
- People in story:听
- Joyce Southall, Edna Southall
- Location of story:听
- Derby
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4664775
- Contributed on:听
- 02 August 2005
It's the personal things you remember.
My cousin was called Edna Payne. She was twenty, and an only child. She was engaged to her boyfriend at the time of war. He was at a camp in Derby.
One of his friends in the camp had sent for his wife. She lived in Birmingham, and they were having a terrible time of it down there. He thought she would be safer up in Derby.
Whilst Edna's Fianc茅 stayed at the camp working, his friend and his wife, who had arrived from Birmingham, and Edna went out dancing at the Railway Institute.
The sirens soon started to go, so they all decided to go home.
They were killed walking along London Road. It is just one of the tragedies of war that happened within my family.
Not that everything made you cry. You found during the war that there was a very fine line between laughter and tears, and I had some happy times too, and some funny memories.
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