Mrs McPhee: He saw the article in the paper of Gregor and Samantha and he thought, "Oh, I know something about that," and he telephoned. I think some people have got some questions.

Mr Davidson: I was born in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk down in England in 1928 and I went to the Primary School in Great Yarmouth and then I got a bursary to go to Great Yarmouth Academy and in 1940 when Dunkirk was on, the school was evacuated to Wrexford up in the East Midlands because it was getting a bit hectic, but I didn't go there. My Father and Mother decided to go to Fraserburgh just up North and I went with them and I went to Fraserburgh Academy and they took the mickey, 'cause I was an English speaking person and I stayed in Fraserburgh Academy. One day when I was in the Academy, during the war, I remember the sirens going off because they used to sound the sirens when there was an air raid coming and we had to get out and run across the fields and go to the safe, a safe house for refuge. So we were running across the fields and a German aeroplane came down low and the chap started machine-gunning and you could see all the..... going in the grass and everything, so I think, that was the first time I did a four-minute mile - I'm not a Roger Bannister but I think we moved fast then. Another time, in Fraserburgh, 1940 and it was Guy Fawkes Day, November the 5th and there was a storm in the Main Street and it caught fire and then the Germans saw the fire and they came homing in and they dropped bombs in Broad Street in Fraserburgh and it flattened 'Woolworths' and a chip shop next door, and the chip shop, because of the fat and everything, it caught fire as well so it was just like a beacon for the Germans to home in on. Nobody was killed but it did a lot of damage. And I can always remember that 'cause I had to run away and go along the outside of Fraserburgh to get refuge again. Another time, on the outskirts of Fraserburgh used to be the C.P.T. (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool works) this is during the war as well. They used to do ammunitions and everything. So at the top of the sand dunes (there was some sand dunes just beside it) and there was a little observation post and that was where a chap was employed to sit there and spot the aeroplanes and just press a button so they knew they had to evacuate the tool works. I was sitting there one day and I was chatting to this man and all of a sudden there was a big bang and the next thing you could see all the sand just going up in the air and what had happened..... There was like a promenade just outside, down at the front and some children had walked along and they had gone into this and it was a minefield. It was all mined for an invasion - to stop an invasion - and they had stepped on this and it blew up all the sand and everything. And this chap - he ran down and he went right into the minefield and guided the children to safety and for that he got the George Cross medal. There's a notice in Fraserburgh Academy. They've got a Heritage Museum and all about it. Then in 1945, I was called up to do National Service and eventually I finished up in Germany, just outside Hamburg. I did two years in Germany and then when I was supposed to come back, I was supposed to be getting de-mobbed but just before then, the Russians started, and they put a blockade around Berlin and the R.A.F. organised an air-lift for coal and food and everything from Hamburg. They used to fly to Berlin, turn around and then they used to fly back again. And I got on the train in Hamburg to go to the Hook of Holland to come across from the Hook of Holland to England. So unfortunately, the train stopped at a station a chap came on and he said, "Where are you going?" And I said, "I'm going back to England." And he said, "No, you're not." He said, "There's been an announcement - demobilisation has been stopped." That was because of the Russian crisis - they just kept everybody. So I had top go all the way back to Hamburg and I had to stay for another two weeks and then they said, "Okay, now you can go home." And that was it, so I got de-mobbed. So, if you've got any questions.

Scott (P7C): Were you ever injured?

Mr Davidson: No, I never got hit, never been injured or anything.

Sam G (P7S): Were you and your family safe during the war?

Mr Davidson: Yes, we all got away. I remember one time, when I was in Great Yarmouth and the sirens went and my Mother took me and the dog (we had a dog) and we had to go under the stairs into a little cupboard just in case anything happened. But I don't know - we escaped all that anyway.