"During the war (1939-45) my father, Aubrey Wood was a voluntary ambulance man. He, Harry Beynon and Horace Shefford were on duty every Friday and Sunday night and were stationed in the old British Legion Club, which was then situated behind Boots the Chemist in Mumbles.

"The ambulances were just trucks with canvas sides. On the third night of the three-day blitz on Swansea, Dad and Horace were up on Townhill ready to transport any injured people to hospital.

"Incendiary bombs were dropping all around and every time a stick of bombs fell, they would dive under the ambulance for cover - not a very wise move in retrospect!

"My cousin and I were watching from my Aunt's bedroom window in King's Road and it was quite a sight. One minute there were dozens of small lights (which were fires) and then they would be extinguished one-by-one, most probably with sand which was kept in buckets for that purpose or with water pumped by a stirrup pump.

"The rest of the war passed more peacefully for the ambulance men in Mumbles, although they still reported for duty till the end."

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