A WARTIME EVACUATION STORY WHICH STARTED BADLY BUT ENDED WELL
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Interviewee name: JOHN STOKES
Date of event: 1 Jan 1940
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John Stokes was a small boy in West Ham when the bombing started. He reminds us that sometimes evacuation was not happy, and that not all those who took in children were necessarily well intentioned. Fortunately it all turned out OK in the end.
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