Diary of Phyllis Bethel of Topsham Devon

An account of her travels with her husband and her daughter Marion from Wiesbaden in Germany and the Second World war in Topsham Devon as written in her diaries between 1929 and 1953.

12th September 1940

We were all awakened with a big bang, next morning we heard from our milkman, a field with 20 cows which give us our milk, had been bombed, but without injury to the cows. Only casualty a tree! On another farm, quite near here, a crater 28 ft wide and 9 ft deep was made, also no casualties. A time bomb fell also in a big property. During afternoon, 4 bombs exploded in the distance. So we had a lively day. As Daddy says, "Every morning, when we get awake, one wonders if one has been killed". We take our baths in the morning now and go in with a prayer that we may get out before Jerry comes.
For three nights we slept blissfully, while London was getting the brunt of it. The children are getting up a sale for hospitals and Marion has been given all the hemming of dusters to do, as she is the only one of them who can hem.

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