Ann was evacuated on this day and remembered being taken to Felixstowe railway station under an escort of planes. She arrived in Worcestershire and slept on the floor of a local school on her first night.

She was chosen (with another girl) to live at Brooksfields, Belbroughton near Stourbridge, with the family of Francis Nicholls, a rich fruiterer from Birmingham who owned three farms. 

Her younger brother Raymond was billeted separately in Clent.