Mother Being Chased

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During the 2nd World War my late mother was a District Nurse. One day whilst on her rounds (on a bicycle dressed in uniform with nurses bag strapped on carrier) she was cycling down Bexleyheath Broadway. Suddenly a German fighter plane came behind her, and started machine gunning the Broadway, mother peddled faster and faster until a butcher standing in his shop doorway yelled out “Stop you silly ***’. She stopped and of course the fighter flew over. Glad to say the only casualty was a milkman’s horse, which I believe recovered.

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