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World War 2

How it affected my Grandma

When World War 2 started on 3rd September 1939 my grandma was 14 years old. She lived in a part of Liverpool where only a few bombs dropped.
She was in school but she wasn't evacuated.

Her dad was called up when the war started because he had fought in the 1st World War, at the age of only 14. He was in the RAF Balloon Barrage and sent to Scotland to protect the Royal Navy.

It was a very sad time because her mother died when she was fifteen, and she had to leave school to look after her dad and brothers. Before the war started her Dad built a bomb shelter and they had to go down almost every night when they heard the aeroplanes.

When she was 18 in 1943 she joined the land army, and went to work on a farm in Cumbria as all the young men had gone to fight in the war women had to do their jobs, like working on farms.

My Grandma knew that war was over when she heard the church bells ring because they were not allowed to ring them until the war had finished.

by Rhianna Bairstow

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