posted on 2024-06-05, 16:39authored byTheir Finest Hour Project Team
<p dir="ltr">Cap, tie, tie - Royal Grammar School Worcester tie and cap.<br>6 years old when the war started. Collecting books for shell casings.<br>Played drums during the war - YMCA Fernhill Heath. Played at VE and VJ day outside the house.<br>Came to RGS 1944-1949.<br>Mr Gilblin - WW1 got stabbed by a bayonet in the neck.<br>Madame Robson (French teacher).<br>Played sport.<br>Chunky Chesel - master.<br>Field Marshal.<br>Book - Flag to Pretoria.<br>Shot down in Bristol.<br>Bombed a mecho garage - Engineering - During lunchtime saw a plane over Worcester, it was a German plane.<br>A few planes crashed into the canal instead of the airstrip. <br>Had a refugee from Birmingham with him.</p>