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I remember leaving St Joan of Arc School, Bootle, Liverpool, and walking down with the other evacuees to Marsh Lane Station,where we were issued with gas masks and labels with our names on them. We got on the train to Southport, and were taken to the Town Hall where I was eventually selected to go with two brothers, Henry and Tony McNulty. We were billeted in the same house.
One day after going to church in Bootle, we decided to walk back. We arrived home and my sister was cooking sausages. She fed me and then the police called to see if we had arrived home. We were then sent back to Southport where we were to stay with an Italian family; the McNulty brothers were billeted next door. I can't remember the final stages of going back, but I was later evacuated to Llandidros Wells. We went by train to school in a Baptist church and stayed with the manager of a grocer's shop, living over the shop at night.
Once again, we decided to walk home with two friends. We stopped at a farmhouse for help when one of the boys collapsed. They must have called the police. We stayed the night at the farm and were then taken back, but were not allowed to go by train without a teacher; instead we were taken back by the police.
Finally we returned home, but once again I was evacuated, this time to Whitegate, Cheshire, staying there until 1944.

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