Home Life

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Jackie Jude of Chelmsford Library on behalf of Sylvia Enever and has been added to the site with her permission.
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I was a teenager during the war and do not remember any big things happening to me. I would watch the fighters overhead and I won a prize at school for collecting the most shrapnel. Dad was in the Home Guard and I was given pocket money for polishing his buckles and badges. Mother and her friends were in Neighborhood Watch and I would go around with them. Our garden was covered by an air raid shelter so we had an allotment to grow our vegetables.

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