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My gran was a bike messenger during the war. She saw the Germans trying to bomb a bridge in Edinburgh. They missed their target!

My gran was hit in the head by flying shrapnel whilst working during the war. She was on a bicycle at the time and luckily was wearing a helmet. She was knocked off the bike but fortunately she survived the experience. She still has the shrapnel which hit her and a scrap of parachute fabric dating from the war years.

My gran talked of her father serving in the Medical Corps in North Africa during the war. At a matinee cinema show in Boness she saw her father washing his clothes in North Africa on a news reel!

My gran also talks about witnessing a ship burning from stem to stem, but I don't know what this means!

I think my gran lost a boyfriend during the war but I don't know the details of that story.

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