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Abbeyfield residents, school days in World War Two - Manawatu Conversations
- Description
Broadcast on Access manawatu, 12 June 2018.
Abbeyfield residents Beryl Ludlam, Bev Marsh, Elaine Morse and Peggy Pedersen describe their experiences. Topics include: School in the war years, air raid practice and shelters, power blackouts, fear of invasion, old ladies teaching, poor discipline, news through the radio, country school farewells for boys going to serve overseas, ration books, sending food to England, the effects of war on families, Japanese in Featherstone, ginger nuts recipe story, American servicemen, Elaine in the UK, effects of a bombing raid, school lunches, entertaining Americans on a New Zealand farm, letters to soldiers, end of war celebrations, war casualties.
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- Object type
- Audio
- Date
- June 12, 2018
- Digitisation ID
- COMM1549961050
- Held In
- IMCA Digital Archive
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