My War -By Peter G Moody: Childhood Expreriences

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 1 - evacuation

My sister Beryl going to one home and Len and myself being sent to Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Hooker at the...

My War by Peter G Moody. Childhood Experiences 2 - An Evacuee in Headcorn, and the Battle of Britain

Eileen Austin and her sister Jean, who came from Chatham, were staying in the village with their aunt....

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 3 - The Blitz

The midwife who was to attend to mum lived in Bellingham and she refused to turn out while the air-raid was...

My war by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 4 - Evacuated, then back to the Blitz again

There was mum, Ron Beryl, David and myself. They could not always get back home quickly and I was left to...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 5 - evacuated to Wimborne

I don't remember much about the journey except that the trains, buses and trams had all their windows...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experinces 6 -air raids and the attack on the WAAFS barrage ballon

Beryl and I had just got to the house when dad, who was in the extended part of thhe garden, called us...

My war by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences part 7 - The flying bombs

I saw the results of a Flying Bomb on the cottages in Bromley Road opposite what was then Perry's...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 8 - My brothers

It was time to evacuate again, with only Ron and Dad remaining in London. Before I go onto the next Exodus...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 9 - Evacuation to Loughborough

Their eldest son, Ray, was in the Army - he was 19 years old, Betty, another daughter, was married and...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 10 - Leaving school in Loughborough

Next door to our bakery was the local chimney sweep, Mr Onion. I would load these trays with cakes,...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 11 - Return to London February 1945 and the end of the War.

Mum had made up her mind that she needed a plumber in the family, so I was taken to several building firms...