About the contributor

I was six and a half years old when World War Two commenced in September 1939, and I lived in Oxhey Nr Watford Hertfordshire only about 20 miles North of Central London.
My father, who worked for the LMS Railway and had already served in the First World War, being wounded in both legs and badly gassed, was in fact in the local Home Guard.
My mother had to do War-Work in a factory (no choice) as my sister and I were both at the local school. My mother was also a Fire Warden at night during Air-Raids.