WojciechZ published Grew up in Ockley, shot down over Germany now living in Lingfield...

A war hero who was shot at by Germans as he ejected from his plane which was about to crash says he feels as though he has "come back home" after moving to Lingfield - 94 years after he was born in East Grinstead. Reverend George Wood briefly lived on Dunnings Road as a baby before moving with his family to Ockley, in Surrey, and then on to Wimbledon. He joined the Royal Air Force at the age of 18 to fight in the Second World War. "I left school at the age of 15 and worked...

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