Evacuation
A Memory of Hastings.
My father decided that living near London was unsafe in 1940 so I was evacuated to my aunt in Hastings. I remember the trip well, the train stopped en-route as the trains coming from the coast were full of soldiers being evacuated from Dunkirk.
On arrival in Hastings I was to live in Elphinstone Avenue. My only firm memory there was being machine gunned by an ME 109 on my way to school. This happened quite often I was informed. It was a "Morning run for the German Air Force". My father, on hearing this, hurried me back to Chislehurst where it was safer (so he thought).
I heard later that my uncle, Sidney Oak, had been given an award for bravery. He worked for the Council, I believe.
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