Guarding the telephone box, September 1939

In 1939 I was with my parents on holiday,staying with my uncle and aunt in Liverpool.I remember waving to my father as the train pulled out of the station. The next time I saw my father he was in uniform. I learned after the war that there had been a radio broadcast for all servicemen to rejoin their units, my dad was a member of the TA. He reported to his unit which was camped in Swanhurst park. He was detailed to stand guard over the local telephone box and wait for an important call and to stop civilians using the box. Soon the phone rang, it was an irate Postmaster wanting to know what was going on, my father referred him to his C.O. Soon after there was another phone message which my father took, this time more serious, we were at war with Germany. My father was in an heavy ack ack regiment and was posted to several gunsites around the midlands including Penns Lane, Sutton Coldfield and Binley woods, Coventry where he was at the time of the blitz attack on the City Occasionally he would come home but always in uniform, there was an occasion when he brought his rifle which he stood in a corner and I remember trying to lift it but is was too heavy. Soon after the Coventry blitz he was posted to India, the next time I would see him I was eight years old and he was back in civvies, his demob suit.