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- Tags: home front
G J Cook's Ration Book
Tags: home front; RAF Swinderby
Interview with Nelson Nix
William North's 1940 diary
Tags: bombing; entertainment; home front; Home Guard
Babies Anti-Gas Helmets
Four Men and Two Women
On the reverse 'Hampstead. April 1942. Embarkation Leave'.
Interview with Gwendoline Thickett
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter
Evacuation Why and How?
Interview with Geoff Brown
Geoff was born and lived in the same area of Grimsby all his life, at the date of his interview he was 93. The first part of the interview concentrated on his…
Interview with Patricia Cook
Tags: animal; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter
Government evacuation scheme
Tags: evacuation; home front
Government evacuation scheme
Tags: evacuation; home front
Gerard Kilburn
Tags: home front; shelter
Three people in an Anderson shelter
Tags: home front; shelter
Some memories of the war
Interview with Carla Fantini
Interview with Joyce Exton Wallace. Seven
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Joyce Exton Wallace. Five
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; Red Cross
Leslie Manser's Diary
Tags: aircrew; bombing; entertainment; home front; pilot; training
Margaret Dixon's account of her early life and service in the Women's' Auxiliary Air Force
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; entertainment; evacuation; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; home front; military living conditions; military service conditions; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halton; RAF Hednesford; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Metheringham; RAF Wilmslow; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Frank Edwards
Frank talks of his evacuation to the countryside near Croxton Kerrial when he was nearly five. He was accompanied by his two brothers and initially…
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; home front; shelter; V-1; V-weapon