- Contributed by听
- cornwallcsv
- People in story:听
- Peter Gilson
- Location of story:听
- Falmouth Cornwall
- Article ID:听
- A8740587
- Contributed on:听
- 22 January 2006
CWS 180804D 16:29::04- 16:30:17
This story has been added by CSV volunteer Linda Clark on behalf of the author Peter Gilson. His story was given to the Trebah Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. The Trebah Garden Trust understand the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.
The bombings continued and the Home Guard was formed. By then people had a strong sense of duty and most people joined up. Most people joined either the Home Guard or Civil Defence and people worked very hard. Looking back on it in retrospect most civilians seemed to work much harder than those people who joined the Services. As a civilian you worked during the day at your day job and then for another 2-3 evenings you went out on patrol with the Home Guard or A R Patrol, telling folk to put lights out, or on aircraft recognition drill. Much credit should be given to the civilians who worked so hard doing day jobs as well as Home Guard duties. This applied to ladies as well as men and the ladies looked very smart in their uniforms.
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