- Contributed byÌý
- A7431347
- People in story:Ìý
- Peter Fawcett, Florence Fawcett, and unknown Butcher
- Location of story:Ìý
- Bexleyheath, Kent
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4856420
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 07 August 2005
“This story was submitted to the People’s War website by Terry Cleaver of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Kent and has been added to the website on behalf of Peter Fawcett with his permission and they fully understand the site’s terms and conditions.â€
During the 2nd World War my late mother was a District Nurse. One day whilst on her rounds (on a bicycle dressed in uniform with nurses bag strapped on carrier) she was cycling down Bexleyheath Broadway. Suddenly a German fighter plane came behind her, and started machine gunning the Broadway, mother peddled faster and faster until a butcher standing in his shop doorway yelled out “Stop you silly ***’. She stopped and of course the fighter flew over. Glad to say the only casualty was a milkman’s horse, which I believe recovered.
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