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Object description
Ts memoir (30pp, written circa 2005) describing her wartime childhood, giving details of the day war broke out (3 September 1939), when she was nine years old, her father's construction of a concrete shelter in the garden of their home in Hastings, Sussex, and the use of the shelter during air raids, her recollection of two terrifying incidents when the family were machine gunned by an ME 109 on their way to the shelter and the explosion of two bombs just beyond the garden perimeter (both summer 1940), her subsequent evacuation with her mother and sister to Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire (late August 1940), and then High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (July 1941), where her father was working, being bullied at school by the local children, the family's return to the South East, to Eastbourne (May 1943), their hospitality towards Canadian soldiers stationed locally prior to the D-Day landings (June 1944), with details throughout of the effects of rationing, the stress her mother suffered as a result of being evacuated, and the destruction caused during the Blitz and the later V-weapons attacks, including damage to their house.
Content description
Ts memoir (30pp, written circa 2005) describing her wartime childhood, giving details of the day war broke out (3 September 1939), when she was nine years old, her father's construction of a concrete shelter in the garden of their home in Hastings, Sussex, and the use of the shelter during air raids, her recollection of two terrifying incidents when the family were machine gunned by an ME 109 on their way to the shelter and the explosion of two bombs just beyond the garden perimeter (both summer 1940), her subsequent evacuation with her mother and sister to Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire (late August 1940), and then High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (July 1941), where her father was working, being bullied at school by the local children, the family's return to the South East, to Eastbourne (May 1943), their hospitality towards Canadian soldiers stationed locally prior to the D-Day landings (June 1944), with details throughout of the effects of rationing, the stress her mother suffered as a result of being evacuated, and the destruction caused during the Blitz and the later V-weapons attacks, including damage to their house.
History note
Cataloguer KM
History note
Catalogue date 2005-11-04