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My moms story (Margaret Shearn aged 9) started when she and her three sisters Alice 15 Joan 13 and brenda 4 years were evacuated to wales like many other children were at that time. Only after a while Alice had concerns that the children were not being looked after very well so she wrote a letter telling her mother(Alice Shearn) of the problems. So as any good concerned mother would she whent to Wales to see how her children were doing when she arived she was horrified to see how much weight they had lost she barley recognised them. So she decided to stay with them after a few days there things started to go missing some one had stolen there sugar there was a big row and Alice took her children away she found a basement flat to rent and stayed there with them only one night she woke to sa strange sound when she put on the light the place was infested with rats. So she woke the girls packed their bags and left taking her girls back to Dover. they were in Dover about six weeks when a battle raged out to sea some shells exploded on land at this time my mom and her family were living at Glenfield road in the house were Alice Shearn 38 years Alice Shearn 15 years Joan Shearn 13 years Brenda 4 years Margaret Shearn 9 years and grandmother Phoebe Payne 58 years when a shell hit the house Margaret(mom) was pushed under the kitchen table wich ultimatley saved her life although every one else died in one fell swoop my mom lost her mother grandmother and three sisters it was the 25th October 1943 they were all buried a week later in the same grave at Charlton Cemetery

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