- Contributed by听
- WMCSVActionDesk
- People in story:听
- Mrs Joyce Rudman
- Location of story:听
- Ladywood, Birmingham
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4080881
- Contributed on:听
- 17 May 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War site by Maggie Smith from WM CSV Action Desk on behalf of Joyce Rudman and has been added to the site with her permission. Joyce Rudman fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
At the beginning of the war I was 15 years old and living with my family in a back-to-back house in Ladywood. My best friend (Joan Riley) lived nearby with her family. We moved away to Perry Bar but I used to visit Joan. One weekend I called to see her. Her house had been bombed. Joan and her mother had sheltered in the cellar but her elder sister had stayed in the bedroom and had been killed by the bomb. Joan and her mother moved away to relatives but I never knew where and I never saw my best friend again. The bomb also killed two other people who were sheltering in the entry.
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