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I was evacuated to Cannock in the Midland when I was 12 but after being ill I was sent back home to Margate. I had to miss out my senior schooling because the schools were closed. I went to work in a drapers shop in Margate High Street, Tyler & Dingwell. One lunchtime at 1pm I cycled home along Dane Road and I was machine gunned by a german plane but not injured because I ran into a garden to shelter. When I got home my father came in to see if I was still alive because the drapers shop had been completely demolished by a bomb and they thought I would be under the debris! I had a lucky escape! A man was killed who owned the barbers shop nearby and John Browns Leather shop was demolished also. My father and sister were further up the high street at Wastalls the off-licence at the time of the bombing and really thought I was lost. When I was 17 I went into the WRENs and travelled to Devon, Cornwall, Chester Hospital and Bristol.

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