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This story was submitted to the People’s War website by Justine Warwick on behalf of Alice Lowry and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the terms and conditions of the site.

Before the war, my husband and I, with our little girl, lived in Hull. My husband was called up on the 1st September 1939 and stationed to France. Our second daughter was born just five days later on the 6th! I was on my own in the house with just my two year old daughter when I went into labour. I sent for the warden who came to the house and stayed with me for an hour until the doctor arrived. My husband didn’t see our second child until he came back from Dunkirk nearly eight months later.
For a while after this, my husband was stationed in Lincolnshire. During this time we had two bad May blitzes, on the 6th & 9th. He came back home to check we were alright and took us back with him.
He was then stationed out in Italy and our third baby, a boy, was born in 1943. His father didn’t see him until after the war in 1946. While my husband was in Italy, we moved to Lincolnshire. People would come and visit us there to get away from the war. The war didn’t really effect us while we were there — we had plenty of food from the farms and there was little bombing. I couldn’t work on the farm land because I’d just has a baby, so I used to work in the farmhouse making sandwiches for the workers during harvest. We had some Italian prisoners of war who helped on the land.
As the war ended, we returned to Hull and my husband came home from Italy safely.

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