Childhood Wartime Memories

Adopted Aircrew

By John Wilby

I was born in Rochford General Hospital in January 1939. We lived in Ashingdon Road. I have memories of adopted aircrew and of sing songs with them around the family piano. Of the sounds of anti-aircraft fire and watching dog-fights from the bedroom window. I later recall the use of in an air raid shelter across the road from Rochford Primary School and an Anderson shelter at home.

This page was added by John Wilby on 06/12/2013.

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Please can you give more information about "adopted aircrew" it sounds interesting? Also do you have by any chance any photos of your wartime childhood? Thanks, Sue

By Sue Horncastle
On 12/12/2013

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