- Contributed by
- Newry Branch Library
- Location of story:
- Greenwich and Kent
- Background to story:
- Civilian
- Article ID:
- A3583389
- Contributed on:
- 27 January 2005
Two days before the war broke out our school in Greenwich SE London was closed.
My mother, brother, myself and baby sister of five months were evacuated to Kemptown, Brighton. We stayed there until Christmas 1939. The “real war” began after that with the bombing of London and once again we were evacuated, this time to Clovelly in North Devon. When we went back home again our house had been bombed. So we stayed with friends in Sidcup, Kent and eventually my father bought a house and we stayed.
I worked in the pay office of the Standard Telephone Company in Footscray Kent. A lot of the time was spent in air raid shelters and dodging both “V1” and “V2”. I then joined the WRNs and ended up at Eglington Barracks in Londonderry.
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