I remember mom crying and sobbing a dad was comforting her and telling us, me and my younger brother Bert... My mother and my aunt had joined Queen Anne's Nursing Volunteers attached to the 12th Cheshire Regiment... In the August of 1939 the Higgins family: Father, Albert; Mother, Gladys; Elder son, Eddie and me, the... Later that day there was a terrible wailing sound and my mother picked me up and explained that the sound... Westminster had distributed gasmasks, Holborn had not... And we plodded round the two boroughs, Westminster... Westminster had distributed gasmasks, Holborn had not... And we plodded round the two boroughs, Westminster... Six years of age, playing on the sand with Aunt Mary, Florence my Mother and Aunt Gertrude had gone off for... Iwas 5 years old when, returning by rail from a family Wakes week holiday in Southport, Ifirst became aware... I remember the sombre pronouncement by Neville Chamberlain on September 3rd 1939 that England was at war... < Previous page| You are on page 2 of 2 | Next page >   | 1 | 2 |   | 
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