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- People in story:听
- Julie Gilham (nee Thomas;) Ernest Gilham
- Location of story:听
- Gillingham, Kent
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A7462497
- Contributed on:听
- 02 December 2005
My most frightening experience of the war was the night that the Germans bombed the Bus Depot in Nelson Road, Gillingham, (27/28 August, 1940). I lived at home close by in Trafalgar Street. The warning went off just as I was saying 鈥淕oodnight鈥 to my young man Ernest. We realized that the rubber tyres on the buses were all ablaze. Four men were killed doing night duty. The night sky was lit up and the Ack-Ack guns were firing for a long while. They tried to save the buses, but 60 buses were lost that night. We tried to help but it was too hot. Eventually the all-clear warning went off.
On returning to my home, we were told there was an unexploded bomb outside my house. They were searching for it all night only to find it was a false alarm.
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