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Eileen May de Mouilpied interviewed at the Guille-Alles Library by Becky Kendall of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Guernsey, 5/2/2005. Transcribed and Edited by John David, November 2005

I………. Thinking back, do you ever remember times when you were particularly hungry, without food? Without clothes? Without water?
Yes, there was an incident, we were short of bread, Mum had a sort of pound loaf, I think it was for a week, I am not sure, [ ] and my dad, and a brother, my elder brother, and my other sister, that was living with us, and my mother, I am sure that she didn’t have any of that bread, because it was for me, and I say, my Mum hungry, and I think I’ve had some of my brother’s loaf, like. Mum used to boil up the potato peels, do whatever you can, you know, to find food, come the end, and when it was the Red Cross parcels, that was really excitable, because I remember going, it was only just round the corner by the shop, we had our little cart, and we couldn’t get to the shop quick enough. There was a queue, long queue, and when it come to our turn we went home and opened our parcels, and there was Klim, and jam, and chocolate, and we really tucked in to that.
There was this elderly chap that mum looked after, he had three daughters and not one of them wanted to look after him, and mum looked after him because he brought up my dad, and he died three weeks before the Red Cross parcels, but my mother always had a stock of things, she never used to buy just one, she’d buy two, before the war, and she had a lot of good toilet soap, and she had one tablet left, and the old chap had his wash with this soap, The District nurse that used to come, she used to wash her hands, my mum said don’t use it too much, she said this lovely soap. I haven’t forgotten that, like.

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