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My name: John Gibson

My main interest in WW2 came from the fact that in 1997 I somehow started writing about my experiences from the beginning of the war in September 1939 through to when I was evacuated, My intention was to leave behind I little bit of what I remember and how I felt during the war years so that my grandchildren and their children would know what went on with me and my family.

A potted history:-

I was born in December 1931 my parents and their relatives lived on the Isle of Dogs which as you know was surrounded by the London group of Docks, in which most of them worked for the Port of London Authority. In 1935 my parents moved to Dagenham in Essex and in 1938 my father joined the Metropolitan Police stationed in Barking (K Division). In September 1940 all my relatives were bombed out and evacuated to a small village in Oxfordshire called Long Hanborough. As the bombing intensified I was sent to Oxford to live with my gran and granddad. My brother Peter who was born in January 1940 had to stay with my parents in Dagenham.

I was not evacuated with my school or group of children and I wondered if any one who was evacuated in the village of Long Hanborough or surrounding area about 1940/43 would like to get in touch.