My Mother and Father's Story

Valery joined the a t s in 19 39, but she always found it very painful to talk about what happened during the war. Valery did an officer's course and was posted to the middle east in april 19 forty two. She never really got over her husband being killed in a car accident at 21. Her father having died in 19 28, her entire family was now gone. dug allen had just been commissioned into the reme when war began in 19 40 he was put in charge of a workshop team whose job it was to install anti aircraft guns in parts of london. At clapham common, one night in the blitz, the noise was stupefying