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Things that my family know and remember about World War 2

ï‚· My Great Grandad Charles Rides helped to build the aircrafts that bombed Germany.

ï‚· My Grandad Colin Rides was only a baby and does not remember much about the war.

 My Great, great auntie drove an ambulance in the war. She gave her nurse’s fob watch to my mum when she became a nurse.

ï‚· My Nana Wendy Freeman remembers that some prisoners of war worked on the farms near to her home.

ï‚· My Nana Wendy Freeman was evacuated in the war.

 My Grandad Billy Webb remembers a man in the street walking around in a uniform but with no weapons. He was there to protect the people. He remembers hearing the bombs drop. Grandad Billy’s dad did not go away in the war but his friend’s dad’s did. He remembers these strange men coming home after the war and wanting to play football with him and his friends.

My interview with my Great Grandad Richard Swindell a soldier in WWII.

ï‚· What did you do in the war?

I was a soldier. I joined the army in Blackpool and then went to
Ireland to train.

ï‚· How old were you?

I was 23 years old.

ï‚· Where did you fight?

I was on a landing craft that went to Normandy.

ï‚· Were you frightened?

Yes I was when I heard the bombs.

ï‚· Is there anything else you can tell me?

Yes. In France the Germans had cut us off and so we went to an orchard and found some really nice apples to eat. When the farmer came he told us off because he was really proud of the apples because they had come from Kent in England !!

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