COUNCIL MEMBER PROFILE: JOHN DAVIS

摘要

Early recollection - standing on the cliffs at my home, a small village on the south coast, watching the fishing boats returning from Dunkirk and wondering why we had our cases packed (Too young to know about possible evacuation) Watching the aircraft dog fights in the Battle of Britain and collecting armaments from crashed aircraft. An attempt to dismantling a large shell led to a spell in hospital and on coming home found my large collections of munitions had been buried for a future generation to discover. To me the loss of the arsenal was more serious than being left with variable hearing. Watch on TV, children in war zones playing with "toys" left by adults - that's what kids do. August 1944 - woken by our mother to say aircraft were flying over on fire, not on fire but rocket propelled Doodle Bugs (VI). A track passed over our village so we were evacuated to Birmingham but quickly returned home.