- Contributed by听
- Glenn Miller Festival 2004
- People in story:听
- Ernest Wheeler
- Location of story:听
- South Wales
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A2997327
- Contributed on:听
- 13 September 2004
In 1939 I was aged 7 years old, and lived in Highams Park near Chingford in Essex. There was an Anderson Shelter in the back garden. I remember collecting military badges and buttons. Due to bombing I was evacuated to Ashwell, near Oakham in Rutland. I went to the village school.
After about six months I returned to London, but after six months of the Blitz I was evacuated for the second time, this time to South Wales. I can remember dustbin lids being pained yellow and mounted on a post. Apparently, if there had been a gas attack, the yellow would have turned red.
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