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Before war broke out I volunteered to be a patient, for the ambulance service I acted as though I was really enjoying it because it gave me a day off work. When war broke out the ambulance service was asking for volunteers, so I volunteered for the job. We took over a garage in Smethick, ambulance station number 6. We were put into two teams and we had to attend first aid lessons and pass the St Johns certificate. At night when the sirens were sounded, had to report to the ambulance station.
One night a bomb had dropped about three hundred yards away from where I was. I was called out, three houses in a row had been bombed. I remember seeing people in there cellars sheltering away from the rubble as best as they could.
When we arrived we had to move things, the women did the rescuing, if there were any parts missing from the bodies the men had the extremely unpleasant job of having to look for them. We then got the stretchers, there were six casualties that night and four people were dead.

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