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Johnstone Hero of the Coventry Blitz
Another Angela Gillespie story.

The English city of Coventry was bombed many times during the Second World War by the German Luftwaffe. The most devastating of the attacks occurred on the evening of 14 November 1940 and continued into the morning of 15 November. One of the Heroes of Fire Fighting and Rescue Work during the Air Raid, was Matthew Wallace, 7 Buchanan Street in Johnstone.

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