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David Stratford Smith
Guest
My Father was on fire duty outside our house in Anstey Road when a delayed action bomb fell, we were all in the air raid shelter when instead of waiting for the explosion he ran towards the crater.
The bomb exploded and he went up with it, then landed to be covered in paving slabs, He was only just alive and taken to Beeches Road School, then to the basement of Lewis' department store, then the General Hospital. After the raid was over my Mother emerged to find his tin helmet swinging on the gate, she then followed his trail to try and find him, he was unconscious for two weeks with massive head and back injuries and it was a year before he was well enough to work again.
This was the same night that Steelhouse lane Police Station was hit.
The bomb exploded and he went up with it, then landed to be covered in paving slabs, He was only just alive and taken to Beeches Road School, then to the basement of Lewis' department store, then the General Hospital. After the raid was over my Mother emerged to find his tin helmet swinging on the gate, she then followed his trail to try and find him, he was unconscious for two weeks with massive head and back injuries and it was a year before he was well enough to work again.
This was the same night that Steelhouse lane Police Station was hit.