Category: Evacuation
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Not My War?
It is too easy to dismiss problems that at first glance seem not to be of moment to oneself. Perhaps, even a war could be dismissed as such a ‘problem’ and when in the seventies we found ourselves unexpectedly caught up in a war between Pakistan and India our first thought was to extract ourselves…
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The Dame School And The Evacuees
Life in London and its suburbs of had become increasingly uncomfortable by 1942 and more and more children were being rehomed away from the capital and other large cities and, in truth, from anywhere that might attract the attentions of the Luftwaffe. Our parents decided that the time had come to think about evacuating my…
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Is This War Mummy?
This is, as far as is possible, a true recollection of an incident in June 1940. Some small details have had to be presumed as “likely “after all this time, but they do not alter what happened during that hot summer’s day. Heroes come in all sorts of sizes and disguises, and this is a…
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