WARTIME and

NATIONAL SERVICE:

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Time in the army

Dodging the machine guns

24 bombs in Brumstead

Hickling Hospital

The village searchlight

Plane crash near Stubb Road

Travelling home in wartime

Extra food during the war

Soldiers in the night…

Father’s wartime injuries and 

later problems

Into the Army

Long distance courting

After working in the coalmines

Gas masks

Attack on the school…

Photo  from family collection

There were 24 bombs  in Brumstead during the war

Joan Greenacre