Brief story of father and grandfather at start of WW2 as told to contributor

At the outbreak of war in September 1939, my grandfather, aged 34 yrs, was working as a railway signalman in Croydon.

My father was at a birthday party in Oxted, Surrey, when on the wireless at 6.00pm, came the news "Britain is at war with Germany"

Dad and Mum never went home to Croydon. They travelled by train to Kent, to his grandparents' farm.

Grandpa worked throughout the blitz in one of the mainline signal boxes, then later was able to move, to work at the local village station.