- Contributed by听
- unforeseensherwood
- People in story:听
- Dennis Sherwood and family
- Location of story:听
- Moseley, Birmingham
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4191149
- Contributed on:听
- 14 June 2005
Dennis my husband, was a child during the war. He remembers it as very exciting.
During air raids, he remembers hearing the shrapnel pinging off the Anderson Shelter and other buildings nearby. In the morning following the raid, he and his brothers would go to school and on the way would look for pieces of shrapnel so that they could swap with their friends.
One day on the way to school, Dennis and his brothers saw a man approaching. This man looked very suspicious to the boys, so they approached him and asked for identification. The man obliged and must have been highly amused to think that these children thought he might be a spy.
During the early part of the war, Dennis and his family moved from the house in Yardley Wood Road to another a short distance away. Within 2 weeks, during a bombing raid, the house they had moved from was bombed and the family were all killed.
He also remembers the gaps in the classroom, where his unfortunate classmates had been killed.
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