- Contributed byÌý
- CovWarkCSVActionDesk
- People in story:Ìý
- Eileen Masters
- Location of story:Ìý
- Great Haywood, Lancashire
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4535444
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 24 July 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War site by Louisa Pointon a volunteer on behalf of Jillian Jobson and has been added to the site with her permission. Jillian Jobson fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
My Aunty Eileen was married to Jack Masters who was in the army during the war. He was about to take 48 hour leave before being posted abroad (he spent alot of time in Burma but may not have gone directly there). At the last moment his leave was postponed for 24 hours and my Aunty was so disappointed that she came over to Rochdale to stay the night with my Aunty Cicely, who lived across the road from us. The next day when she returned home, she found that her house had recieved a direct hit from a bomb. The bedroom in which my Aunty Eileen and Uncle Jack should have slept had been completely destroyed. The furniture that was salvaged from the house cluttered up our house and Aunty Cicely's house for the following months!
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