Interview with Sheila Reid Chaplin

Interview with Sheila Reid Chaplin

Sheila Chaplin grew up in Liverpool where her mother was the matron and her father the secretary of a hospital. Sheila and her parents listened to the radio as declaration of war was announced and she recalls her parents reacted to the news with a sense of foreboding. Sheila’s first visual experience of war was seeing injured survivors of Narvik lined up on bunks in the hospital awaiting medical attention. On one occasion. the family were bombed out of their cellar shelter and transferred to the Anderson shelter in the garden. It was then she saw Liverpool ablaze. When undergoing her legal training after the war she saw the still bombed sites of London.

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2016-11-15

00:32:36 audio recording

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