One night I did an impression of a whistling bomb; my parents dived from their chairs to under the shelter....
When the bombings started in earnest I used to go out at night and end up running from shelter to shelter...
They came over our home on the Oak Road Estate in Tunbridge Wells in Kent. The police were very thorough --...
I then went on army anti- aircraft Cockshutt Hill Sheldon... We checked the nearby property Lyons tea room...
I served in the barrack towns - Maidstone, Aldershot, etc....
When I was stationed in Scotland, the duchess of Gloucester came and the heavens opened. My first husband...
I remember an incident when an incendiary bomb had been dropped around the area of Firth Street Mills in...
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On Saturday morning, 31st October 1942, all the barrage balloons guarding Canterbury were lowered for...
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I spent most of my childhood years in Fareham and remember countless hours spent in air raid shelters, on...
A bomb had been dropped on Downing Avenue where my gran lived... Fortunately, they had survived in their...
Reavells Munitons factory kept us on for a while after that. My husband, then fiancee, was called up in...
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I met a naval officer who invited me to attend a dinner dance at the Continental Hotel... However, the next...
I went into the small garden at the rear of the house and looked to the west along the row of houses...
He had just come back from Dunkirk and was now stationed at Canterbury Barracks. An unexploded bomb came...
I was with Margaret- my little girl once, and we were in a station waiting to board the train to go up...
This location was in the middle of a number of airfields; North Weald, Hunsden, Matching, Stanstead etc....
Although I was too young to remember the incident myself for many years after I couldn't pass a bombed...
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