OS Daily Sunday 18 April 2021

monnagran

Gers, I would love to hear some of your mother's stories.  She can give me a good 10 years and she would have remembered what life was like before the war, whereas to me the war was the only life I had ever known.  To me searchlights, being dragged into the shelter in the middle of the night, sirens and all clears, going to school with my Mickey Mouse gas mask over my shoulder, was normal life.
I did rather better than her with regard to uncles. All mine survived.  One came back from Dunkirk, one was in a prison camp in Austria and came back stone deaf and refusing to talk about it,  one in the RAF and one doing mysterious things in the War Office.  My FIL and stepMIL were both in SOE, and that is a book in itself.  My father had a cushy sort of war in this country until the last year when he was shipped out to Burma.

Sorry to go on a bit, but we wartime survivors are getting a bit thin on the ground.

I've never been to the Beamish, but have visited The Black Country Museum many times.  Absolutely fascinating and a blast of nostalgia.

Enjoy your Sunday every one.

Gers

monnagran said:

Gers, I would love to hear some of your mother's stories.  She can give me a good 10 years and she would have remembered what life was like before the war, whereas to me the war was the only life I had ever known.  To me searchlights, being dragged into the shelter in the middle of the night, sirens and all clears, going to school with my Mickey Mouse gas mask over my shoulder, was normal life.
I did rather better than her with regard to uncles. All mine survived.  One came back from Dunkirk, one was in a prison camp in Austria and came back stone deaf and refusing to talk about it,  one in the RAF and one doing mysterious things in the War Office.  My FIL and stepMIL were both in SOE, and that is a book in itself.  My father had a cushy sort of war in this country until the last year when he was shipped out to Burma.

Sorry to go on a bit, but we wartime survivors are getting a bit thin on the ground.

I've never been to the Beamish, but have visited The Black Country Museum many times.  Absolutely fascinating and a blast of nostalgia.

Enjoy your Sunday every one.

My Dad did D-day + 6 in the Royal Engineers.  My DM became a translator for the BAOR and they got married in Hamelin (Pied Piper country).  I had one uncle in the navy and one who died in Italy as part of the Argylls. He has a war grave.  It's all very interesting whilst being scary too.   The SOE was brilliant and the people who worked there were geniuses who saved the UK from the awfulness of the Nazis. 

Florenceem

Warmer here today as the breeze is not so chilly.
My family was Blessed - all my Uncles on both sides came home.unscathed from the war.