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This Story has been submitted to the People’s War website by Anne Wareing of the Lancs. Home Guard on behalf of Doroty Alice Dyson and has been added to the site with her permission…

I was born in 1922 in Scissett near Huddersfield. I was 16 when the war started and working as a hank winder in the same cotton mill, that my father was working in.. It was very quiet during the war, I don’t remember any bombs dropping in the area, although we could see them in the distance being dropped over Sheffield, there was a lot of manufacturing going on there. Life carried on as usual in spite of the rationing and the black out, as a young girl I used to go out dancing, but never dared have a flashlight with me, it wouldn’t do to show a chink of light.

I had known my husband to be since I was a girl, his name was Eric Dyson , he went in to the Royal Navy and was torpedoed of the coast of America and two or three of the crew lost their lives, but most survived. A family in Barbados took him in until they could send a ship to pick them all up. He kept in touch with the family and I went out to visit them two years ago.

He came home safe after the war and we married, him in his uniform and I wore a pink two piece with a brown hat, and we held the reception in the chapel..

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