Like many others who have survived WW2, I have just been advised of this site. A member of the Family Research Team to which I am a member has informed the Group that there is only one month left for submitting memories of WW2.
My name is Bob Kentsley and I now live in New Zealand. I was only 13 years of age when the war broke out and like thousands of other children I was evacuated away from London. Being deposited in a place which I had never heard of and being surrounded by a host of foster parents anxious to see what was going to be their contribution to the war was an extremely traumatic experience.
However my parents had said farewell to three of its four offsprings which lead to number 5 being born in July 1940 and I was recalled to London mainly to take my father who was Blind to and from his place of work.
I spent the next four years in London during the bombings,rationing and blackout until I decided that I had had enough and joined the Army just before "D" Day.
I spent just over three years in the Army being discharged as disabled in 1947.
I came out of the Army, eventually got married and had two children
The Winter of 1963/4 was so bad that by the end of 1964 I was living in New Zealand where it is much warmer and in the Auckland area there is no snow or ice in the Winter.
 | 15 October 2014 |
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