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Air-Raid Shelters IT WAS NOT JUST THE UPHEAVAL caused by evacuation and the blitzes that changed a generation’s childhood, it was how war pervaded every aspect of life. From dodging bombs by bicycle and patrolling the parish with the vicar’s WW1 pistol, to post air raid naps in school and being carried out of the rubble as the family’s sole survivor, children experienced life in the war zone that was Britain. This reality, the reality of a life spent growing up during the Second World War, is best told through the eyes of the children who experienced it first-hand. Children In the Second World War unites the memories of over two hundred child veterans to tell the tragic and the remarkable stories of life, and of youth, during the war. Each veteran gives a unique insight into a childhood which was unlike any that came before or after. This book poignantly illustrates the presence of death and perseverance in the lives of children through this tumultuous period, each account enlightens and touches the reader; shedding light on what it was really like on the Home front during the Second World War. Amanda Herbert-Davies has an honours degree in Conservation and Restoration of Historic Art. After living in France and having children, she returned to England where she became involved with the Second World War Experience Centre in Yorkshire. Working with the archival collection of the Home Front, she became fascinated by the recollections of children who grew up under wartime conditions in Britain. uk £12.99 Scan the QR us $24.95 code foR moRe hiStoRy titleS fRom Cover design: Jon Wilkinson www.pen-and-sword.co.uk Pen & SwoRd CHILDREN IN WW2 cover.indd 1 08/02/2017 11:04 Book-Children 2WW-new_234x156 03/02/2017 12:00 Page i Children in the Second World War Book-Children 2WW-new_234x156 03/02/2017 12:00 Page ii To my children Eleonore and Eloise Book-Children 2WW-new_234x156 03/02/2017 12:00 Page iii Children in the Second World War Memories from the Home Front Amanda Herbert-Davies Book-Children 2WW-new_234x156 03/02/2017 12:01 Page iv First published in Great Britain in 2017 by PEN AND SWORD HISTORY an imprint of Pen and Sword Books Ltd 47 Church Street Barnsley South Yorkshire S70 2AS Copyright © Amanda Herbert-Davies, 2017 ISBN 978 1 47389 356 6 The right of Amanda Herbert-Davies to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the Publisher in writing. Printed and bound in Malta by Gutenberg Press Ltd Typeset in Times New Roman by CHIC GRAPHICS Pen & Sword Books Ltd incorporates the imprints of Pen & Sword Archaeology, Atlas, Aviation, Battleground, Discovery, Family History, History, Maritime, Military, Naval, Politics, Railways, Select, Social History, Transport, True Crime, Claymore Press, Frontline Books, Leo Cooper, Praetorian Press, Remember When, Seaforth Publishing and Wharncliffe. For a complete list of Pen and Sword titles please contact Pen and Sword Books Limited 47 Church Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70 2AS, England E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk Book-Children 2WW-new_234x156 03/02/2017 12:01 Page v Contents List of Plates .........................................................................................vi Introduction ........................................................................................ viii Chapter 1 The Beginning ..................................................................1 Chapter 2 Air-Raid Shelters ............................................................14 Chapter 3 Evacuation ......................................................................37 Chapter 4 Invasion ............................................................................65 Chapter 5 Shortages ..........................................................................74 Chapter 6 Schools .............................................................................93 Chapter 7 Entertainment ................................................................117 Chapter 8 War Effort ......................................................................126 Chapter 9 The Bombing of Britain ................................................144 Chapter 10 The End ..........................................................................162 Notes ....................................................................................................178 Bibliography ........................................................................................184 Index ....................................................................................................195 Book-Children 2WW-new_234x156 03/02/2017 12:01 Page vi List of Plates A twelve-year-old girl helping to dig a trench for air raid protection in Kent, 1939. (D. Rice) A ‘homely’ Anderson shelter. (P. Tollworthy) A sketch of her family’s Anderson by Christine Widger, aged twelve, drawn while sitting in the shelter during a doodlebug attack. A brick surface shelter built at the bottom of a garden in Kingsmead Avenue, Tolworth, Surrey. (E. Gardener) Evacuee’s label. (W. Hayle) Phyl Jones, privately evacuated from East London with her siblings for the duration of the war. Muriel Booth, aged eleven, who was evacuated on a Thames paddle steamer. Muriel Booth’s plea to come home from evacuation. Kitty Levey (right) and her sister, CORB evacuees, ready to depart from Lancashire to South Africa. Jo Veale from Birmingham who was convinced she was ‘going home on Monday’. She did not return home for six years. Christine Widger, evacuated from Kent to Lancashire, kept in touch with her Lancashire teacher for the next fifty-seven years. Yorkshire boy Ernest Tate, spy-watcher and unofficial member of Leeds ARP. Daphne Hackett, aged eleven, whose family befriended prisoners from Thames Ditton POW Camp. German prisoners at Long Ditton POW Camp, Greenwood Road, Thames Ditton, Surrey. October 1946. (Iain Leggatt) Dorinda Simmonds of Ealing, London, black-market butter girl. Derek Clark’s school, semi-demolished overnight by a doodlebug in 1944. A little boy in Kent playing with his father’s ARP kit. (M. Jones) Iain Leggatt playing war games, 1942. vi Book-Children 2WW-new_234x156 03/02/2017 12:01 Page vii LIST OF PLATES Alan Starling (left), underage member of the 3rd Battalion Renfrewshire Home Guard, Scotland. Geoff Creece, GPO messenger boy in Portishead during the Bristol Blitz. John Bones in uniform as Flight Sergeant in No. 308 Squadron Air Training Corps, Colchester. Joyce Garvey (1942), who helped a mother give birth in an air-raid shelter, member of Birmingham ARP from the age of sixteen. Jean Wilson, member of Friern Barnet Girls Training Corps, London. Jean Wilson wearing her St John Ambulance cadet uniform. Myfanwy Khan with her older sisters in the garden of her home in Exeter. The ruins of Myfanwy Khan’s home after the Exeter blitz, 1942. Margaret Hofman, whose family fled the docklands of London during the Blitz. Sketch of a doodlebug by Jeff Nicholls who was an industrial spotter in London for the Alarm within the Alert. John Pincham (left) and his brother at home in Wimbledon Park the year before they were bombed-out. Bomb-damaged houses in John Pincham’s street, 1944, which had to be guarded from looters. VE Day street party in Rothsay Road, Gosport. (M. Brien) vii Book-Children 2WW-new_234x156 03/02/2017 12:01 Page viii Introduction During the Second World War, Britain was a war zone. Over 60,000 civilians died on the Home Front due to enemy action, millions of homes were damaged or destroyed, and mass migration was necessary to save the vulnerable. The last generation able to give a living testimony of life in Britain during this, one of the country’s most tumultuous periods in history, are those who were children. On the Home Front, war pervaded every aspect of life. As a consequence, children from the very young to teenagers were inextricably involved in the war effort and even warfare itself. There was no child who was not, to a greater or lesser degree, untouched by the exceptional conditions of the time. This book describes the Home Front from the children’s perspective, focusing on those experiences which left the deepest impressions. From the cataclysmic wail of the first air-raid siren to the Victory bonfires that scarred the backstreets, these recollections present a comprehensive picture of childhood in Britain throughout the Second World War, as remembered by those who lived it. The experiences of these children who came from all over the country, from every class, are as diverse as the individuals who tell them. For some children, particularly the younger ones, the war did not detract from a happy childhood because, to them, war was normal. Though conscious of what was going on, they did not have the deeper concerns their parents had. Protected by the optimism of youth which believes tragedy is a lifetime away and dying is for the old, young children were free to find excitement and thrills in war. The fear felt during bombing raids was, as described by one boy, like being on a rollercoaster ride: it belonged to the moment and then it was over; until the next time. Some of these children even considered their wartime childhood to have
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