2022
The start of 1940 saw the arrival of evacuees into the town of Warminster. Wilfred accommodated and helped many evacuees travelling to and from the town. He reflects on a girl called Vera Simmons–a 12 year old from North Woolwich– who forty four years later, Wilfred remains “close friends’ with (p.22). Wilfred’s duties as an air raids warden included “fitting the population of Warminster with gas masks’ (p.17); tending and answering the worries of those in the town and being trained in “first aid’ (p.20).
Writing Lives: Wilfred Middlebrook
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