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- royalstarandgarter
- People in story:听
- James Cheseldine-Culley
- Location of story:听
- Bognor, Dover
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A6469978
- Contributed on:听
- 28 October 2005
This story has been added to the People's War Site by Margaret Walsh of The Royal Star and Garter 91热爆 on behalf of James Cheseldene-Culley and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
I was a teenager during the war. My father was a soldier, posted to Sussex, on the South Coast. I remember that we were going to visit my mother in hospital in Bognor, when a Messerschmitt with a Spitire on its tail started to machine-gun the road we were walking along. My father pushed me into a ditch and fell on top of me to protect me.
When the war broke out we were in Dover, and I can remember my father taking me to see the British Expeditionary Force coming back into harbour, with all the wounded. It made a big impression on me.
After the war I went to the World Scout Jamboree for Peace at Moissons on the Seine. I remember seeing the destruction everywhere - bridges down, and terrible food, even the bread. I think of that as the last summer of my boyhood.
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