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- Wakefield Libraries & Information Services
- People in story:听
- Elsie
- Location of story:听
- Yorkshire
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4906767
- Contributed on:听
- 10 August 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War site by Christine Wadsworth of Wakefield Libraries and Information Services on behalf of Elsie and has been added with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
My Mum died in 1938 when I was 16, leaving eight children, the youngest only 6 years old. The Board of Governors said that I had to go in the Forces so my eldest brother, Harry, wrote to the papers and Alan Swaffen got in touch with the Board and I was given a deferment. Every six months I had to go and see the Board.
The Daily Herald came and took photographs and so did the Evening Post. I received five proposals of marriage from people I鈥檇 never seen.
There were no school dinners then, all the family came home at dinnertime, but they were given a 录 pint (200 mls) of milk at school and cod liver oil all off the same spoon.
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