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This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Dawn Cunningham of Lutterworth Community College on behalf of Alice Hill and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

I was born in London, the Kensington Oval and I was 14 when the war broke started. I had a younger brother and 5 older brothers. My youngest brother was 11 and he was evacuated, but two days later he wrote saying ‘bring me home mum, please being me home’. You weren’t supposed to go and fetch them and they even had posters telling Mums to leave their children where they were, but he was pleading so much, my brothers went and fetched him back.

We all used to go down the underground when the sirens went. We could only get our clothes with clothing coupons. We used to have margarine all week but we always had butter on Sundays. I had one of those Mickey Mouse gas masks.
I became a machinist at 14 and I used to sew Officers uniforms.

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