Yeovil at war
Yeovil at war
The wartime Yeovil recollections of Frank Chammings
My Dad was in the army as a gunner in the Royal Artillery normally based in Kent. We lived in Okehampton where I was born. However, at some time he was sent to Yeovil and me and my mum and my younger brother went to stay with relations there. One evening, I must have been about 4 years old, I went to a fish and chip shop when we heard a siren and the noise of German bombers, my mum collected me to take me home and on the way back I saw these German bombers flying over Yeovil dropping bombs. I know now they were Junkers. Late that night, I well remember being in the bedroom of the house we were staying in with mum and dad and my brother all sitting on a bed with the bombs dropping around us, with the house shaking and plaster falling from the ceiling and I was trying to get under the bed. As it happened, the house next but one from us was flattened. That is all I remember of that time.
Reproduced from the BBC's "WW2 People's War" under the 'fair dealing' terms.
