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This story was submitted to the People’s War Site by Rachael Champion for Three Counties Action, on behalf of Patricia Bennett, and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

We were evacuated the day before war broke out with a gas mask and some groceries. I first went to Lady Lovels Darney in Brampton House (she had 10 evacuees). When she died all of the kids were separated, the daughter tried to get us all back together.

We moved a lot. One lady was ‘entertaining’ overseas friends overnight. She used to send kids out to nick food (cabbages). After this Mother rented in Exeter and got five of her children back. We lived above a bakery and there was lots of activity, troops etc, must have been D-Day.

As a child I knew it must have been towards end.

My Father was a Royal Fusilier (8th Army) and my brother was in the Mediterranean. We got all of them back.

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