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A contribution of victor morgan People in the history morgan Place winner in history Maesglas newport Gwent Article number A2023002 Contribution November 11th., 2003
Air Raid Luftwaffe on the railway tracks near Great Western Maesglas estate Circa 1940 cladding were among the many truckloads of them a van loaded with none other than whiskey It was in flames and smoke.
The area shown in this scene is the old road to the main piers on the bridge of the railway lines in Cardiff and West Wales countless men went on the bridge in 1939 were walking on their way to the ship before embarking for France Before future air raids were to come the sound of feet of countless men walking beat big towing motor vehicles cannons and military rifles and machine night and day tanks in a continuous flow went the many soldiers of British army BEF to France in a row men occasion people gathered and marched to provide smoke boy.
And the shock of many a friend and the woman to see their boyfriend or husband walking towards France.
Far annual camp T Training A They were mobilized and had little choice.
The cousin of the author was one of those men and captured later taken to Dunkirk.
After the war in Stalag Luft Three Some smoke screen widgets that set up an acrid burnt oil screen mixed with water to give a dense blanket of smoke over the entire area where the docks were to be attacked local awaited imminent people can remember watching this area has changed me now very much changed the route to the comet and the various new commercial buildings recently, the author returned to walk past this area Maesglas muffler club and the old road bridge now rusted condition And soon I fear will be dismantled along with the past traces of ghost generations who once walked this way, but no traces of the past can be heard now remain only a scene captured in a painting reached on a canvas to link to my site on this page if you want to see in March Davies incendiary Home Bombed also during the raid of the house three doors of the author has had a direct hit with an incendiary bomb on the house at 110 Maesglas Avenue Newport Gwent Mrs D avies also depicted in a painting was rescued from the flames made out of home by local volunteers in the ARP men many men of the region Maesglas trained as firefighters and rescue workers in those wartime years Maesglas name Nick Greenfield Moscow for his views left red flag flying high incendiary bombs were dispersed in this area of the property which was a residential area Although we were only children at the age of thirteen and fourteen in a desire to participate and be viewed as help low accompany the neighbor patrol fire department to look in the area the night of the arson attack men of ARP did a good and effective work at containment box MBES bright burning incendiary by a quick dab of a sandbag on the offensive bright light of the burning bomb would probably find a clue to the plane buzzing above Maybe we were down a more obstacle in our innocence of youth and indiscretion see the bombs blazing when we lifted a sandbag This indiscretion not only took the young often elderly gathered to observe the buildings to the damaged bomb and come out to watch the planes caught in Searchlight and shell bursts and shrapnel and whining all that this attack by the German Luftwaffe had their share in the effort to demoralize the British mind before the final attack of German forces in the country, far from it, even if short attacks of food and night with the lack of sleep we often hear some town in the country having more trouble we were so top nt in our unit for the defeat of our enemy then a British nation, we were together Davies was rescued from the burning house and the fire extinguished.
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