WARTIME and

NATIONAL SERVICE:

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Jack’s family

Evacuation to Retford

Escape from evacuation

Farm work - and a plane crash

School holidays

The family in wartime

Shropshire to Norfolk

Doodlebug

The searchlight and gun

Seaplanes and Sunday walks

The trenches at school

Evacuees

Father back from the war

Baby’s gas mask

Talking about the war

Grandpa injured in the Great War

Wartime and N.S. -  page  5

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Photo from family collection

Jack Aldred remembers a doodlebug coming over - not very high - and landing, but failing to explode.

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