After 18 months in hospital, an unfamiliar woman and small boy arrived to take Eric home. He was back with his family. Soon he and his brother, Eddie, were tracking Hitler's latest weapon, the V1 Flying Bomb, passing overhead, as they sat on the roof of their Anderson Shelter in Doodle Bug Alley.
The bombing of Sandhurst Road School not only killed Eric's sister, Kitty, it led to his mother having a breakdown and his brother going into care, while he spent 18 months in various hospitals, adjusting to living with his injuries. His father later told him of returning from work one day to find three letters in their empty home, which encapsulated what they faced at that time.
After being evacuated for three years at the beginning of the Second World War, Eric had just four months at home before being seriously injured in the Sandhurst Road School bombing. His life in hospital then began.
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