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This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Deena Campbell from CSV Action Desk on behalf of Miss Pat Johnson and has been added to the site with her permission. Miss Johnson fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

I was two when the war broke out and the day of the evacuation, The Welfare Centre sent us to Gloucester where there was a parrot in a cage. But because the bombing didn’t start straight away they sent us back to Birmingham. When it started for real, (as my father was Welsh), we were evacuated and sent to Merthyr Tydfel, Wales. We were there for the duration of the way. We saw my dad twice a year because he was on extended war detail but we hardly knew him. He was a civil works engineer.

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