When Barry Yeagers turned 12 years old, he never expected to leave Guernsey for any reason, let alone the start of World War Two.
But when it became clear Nazi Germany forces had their sights set on the island, children were offered the chance to be evacuated from the island with their schools.
He said: "My brother and I used to go swimming after school. One night a woman came down to the pool screaming: 'Get back home,' telling us we had to sign up at school to leave.
"We realised everybody was going, so we did the same and ran home, and mother took us to St Joseph's."
It was June 1940 and Guernsey's plans to evacuate the island's children to England had begun.
It is believed an estimated 6,000 children, along with their teachers, were shipped out initially to Weymouth, Dorset, for their protection, and Mr Yeagers was one of them.
Now 97, Mr Yeagers has been sharing his story as part of the Island Memories Project, a collaboration between BBC Guernsey and Guernsey Museums.
'A lot of crying'
Barry's boat arrived in Weymouth at about 15:30, when he eventually had a chance to eat a bit of food.
He said: "There was a lot of crying.
"Some of the youngsters were only six and seven-year olds, and there was a few mothers on there, but it was more teachers than anything else.
"We all had a medical at the Weymouth Pavilion and got through by 16:45.
"Next, we went across the road to a hotel and had a sandwich and a cup of tea, before boarding the train at 17:30."
The journey was not a short one either, taking the group all the way to Glasgow, Scotland, and keeping them onboard for 22 hours.
"I don't know how many were on the train, but there there was at least 10 to a carriage. And there was only one stop, at Crewe, and that was at four in the morning."
The children from Barry's school, St Joseph's, were housed in a day care centre Dixon Halls.
After another move, he contracted chicken pox and was hospitalised before eventually relocating to an area in the south of Glasgow, Pollokshaws.
"That's where I started school, and I think I only went for about four days. We did nothing but drawing," he said.
And then Barry got the best news he could have asked for: "All of a sudden we were told that we were going to meet up with our family."
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Barry and his brother met his mum and younger sister Patricia in Watford, and his dad was evacuated from Guernsey on a yacht from Brecqhou to Dartmouth in Devon.
The family moved to a cottage near Dittisham, on the River Dart in the county.
During his time there, Barry remembers seeing three German Stuka aircraft drop bombs on the village.
