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June Ord was at home in Redcar when the war started. She was only 9 years old when the news that ww2 had began. June lived at home with her mother, father and three younger brothers and her sister. Radio was there main source of information about what was happening in the world. Her father was in the navy but then became a merchant. Torpedoes often attacked his ship and he was often wounded, as a result of these attacks, in later years he was eventually medically discharged.
During the war she left primary school to join secondary school. But the school was taken over to become a hospital to care for injured soldiers. June continued her education by being taught in other people鈥檚 houses with up to about three other students. Although she was still been taught, June found it very difficult to concentrate in her forever-changing surroundings. After that she went to a mixed school with a mix of Catholics and Protestants.
Most foods were rationed during the war. But it was not just food, clothes were rationed by a points system. People were given a certain amount of points a year (enough to buy a whole new outfit). Soap and luxuries were also being rationed.

Bacon and ham 4oz
Sugar 8oz
Butter 2oz
Cooking fats 8oz
Meat (rationed by price) 1s
Tea 2oz
Cheese 1oz
Jam 2oz

Plus 16 points a month for other rationed foods.

At the end of the war, June was 15-years-old. She remembers parties in the street for the VE celebrations although she herself was not allowed to go to them. After the war June became a nurse, along with her sister and travelled to the Middle East to help look after wounded soldiers. The rations still went on after the war. This table shows the rations for one person in an average week in 1941.

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