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I lived at Milden Hall, I was 15 when war broke out. I worked on a farm with horse Beck Row. When we worked on the fields, we could see the planes coming to land with landing lights. One of the horses got shot by a machine gun I was walking with them I was lucky I wasn't killed.

There were Wellington bombers came down in the field shot down by the Germans and one day one landed on a lady's house on the chimney. There was never any damage to the airfield.

I was never called up as I worked on a farm. I was about 16 and I joined the home guard. We were called out in the middle of the night to do training, we used to go on the firing range.

After the Wellingtons, they had the stirlings, I see the crash on top of trees and we never ever see anymore.

There was a Wellington bomber crashed in the middle of the road near a school. There was a big explosion about 8 miles from Mildenhall. There was a lot of ammunition on a train at Soham. It shook our house, nobody was hurt.

When the war ended I went to work in London, worked in parks. I was sent lorry loads of sand that the Queen and her sister when they were princesses played with.

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