NextBackI was about 18 years old in 1941 during WW2. I went to sign up in Redditch, I had my medical in Worcester and I was accepted into the RAF. The chap I went with was refused which upset him, but he’s alive still to this day. I was posted into the RAF at Padgate, then Warrington, then Blackpool. From here I was posted to a place called Lymn in Kent, I was here for four years, marvellous!!!. The bombers shelled us on the airfield frequently, and as soon as the sirens went, off to the shelters wed go.
My job in the forces was in Equipment and clerical, I enjoyed the work, it was a good job. Id also do some guard duty and fire duty, stuff like that, but that was before they had the RAF police. If any planes were brought down over the marshes or the airfield, they’d be loaded up onto the back of lorries and taken to Exeter to be melted as scrap metal. After D day the army took the airfield, and sent the maintenance units of the RAF into Europe, I was sent to Belgium and France and Holland.
My job was pretty much the same with some added duties, loading bombs etc. I was abroad for about a year, Then back to lymn at the end of the war. When I got back home I got married to my Winnie in 1942 in Kent, and we settled in Redditch shortly after.
I got a job back at Needle Industries and was there for most of my life.
I was glad to be home !!!!!!!!
