“By that time Mum and Dad had aIready found each other and
married. Mum is Bridgid Brereton, bom in Somerset and called Biddy
by all of us who adore her. After the war had started in eamest and
my sister Sally had arrived, Mike was posted to South Africa. Biddy
and Sally were to join him, and dutifully shipped out to Capetown
aboard the freighter City of Nagpur, which wasalmost immediately
torpedoed by a German U-boat and sunk. Mercifully, my mother and
sister were rescued by the destroyer HMS Hurricane (which happened
to be captained by an old Fleetwood family friend) and taken to
Scotland. Dad survived the war too, emerging as Wing Commander
FleetwoocJ. My sister Susan was bom around then, and I came along
in 1947, entering this life on 24 June in Redruth in northem Cornwall,
not far from St Devel aerodrome where Mike was stationed. My very
first memories are of the family house in Hayling Island, Hampshire.
The child’s eye recalls the dappled light on the Solent, the blue water
oH the southern coast of England in May.”

Kilde: Fleetwood. My Life and Adventures with Fleetwood Mac. Mick Fleetwood.with Stephen Davis. Sidgwick & Jackson. London 1990.

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