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A War Experience

I've been requested by my Daughter to remember some incident from world war two;
As a skilled toolmaker I was employed on work of national importance, and in the company we had a sports club, and whenever we could get a Sunday evening off, a number of us used to go ice skating at Richmond Ice Rink. Air raid warnings were given by loud sirens, but the government being aware that Buzz bombs were imminent introduced "Imminent Danger Horns".

The Sunday we were skating, the date escapes me at the moment, the buzz bombs started, we were busy skating when danger signals sounded, nobody notice until the ice started to shake, we got out quickly, anti aircraft guns in Richmond park were banging like mad,
Bits of shrapnel was flying about the place, it was a wonder we didn't get hit, we sheltered in a shop doorway, when one of the bombs passed almost overhead with it's tail on fire, we all shouted look we got one, till we heard the bang. When things become quiet, we caught a bus which just happened to be still running, this took us to Feltham, I still had to get home, which ment walking about a mile down Bedfont lane, on the south side were market gardens and I could see these things coming up in threes, I got home at great speed and dived into a shelter at the bottom of our garden.

On Bedfont recreation ground there was an anti-aircraft battery. A buzz bomb fell in the middle of it, the screams were appalling, the bomb also blew our roofs in.

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