‘YOU’D BETTER LEAVE ME”
a woman who showed perhaps the most wonderful courage that I have ever come up against. She was an elderly woman and rather stout. She was pinned down in the basement of her house by a delayed-action bomb, which had made a hole in the roof and brought down a certain amount of debris as it came through the upper floors. “There she was, lying on top of it, pinned down with rafteis, plaster, and planks. The squad’s job was' to get her out before the bomb exploded. The borough engineer kept i fussing around: ‘You had better get on with it. Can’t let you work here i much longer; may go off any minute j now. Hurry up there.’ “It ever there was an excuse for a woman to show fear, to become hysterical, and to scream to be got out. there it was: but she stayed quite calm, and all she said was: “You’d better get out of here; there’s no good our all being blown up, is. there? You’d better leave me.”— . ‘Related by Mary Hinton, i.h< Eng-, lish actress, who has been driving stretcher parties during raids on London.)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 5 August 1941, Page 6
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197‘YOU’D BETTER LEAVE ME” Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 5 August 1941, Page 6
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