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June 1940,a boy, just before his 8th birthday, taken from his home in Folkestone Kent and transported by train to Abergavenny with hundreds of other children.
I was born on 20th June 1932 in The Mothers Hospital for Women at Clapton, after my birth I was sent to my family in Folkestone, started scool at 5 years of age at the newly built Harcourt School in Surrenden Road Cheriton Folkestone, the school is now called Pent Valley. Harcourt school was then a primary school for girls and boys, and a secondary school for girls, the boys remained at the old Morehall school, in Chart Roard Cheriton Folkestone.
I remember world war 2 breaking out in September 1939, I recall the siren sounding, I lived with my Grandmother Agnes, my invalid Aunt Dorrie, who spent all her life in a wheelchair, my mother who I at that time knew as my Aunt Kit, we then lived in Coolinge Lane Folkestone

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