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Description: | British schoolchild in Harwich, Essex, 1914-1918
REEL 1: Background in Gibraltar and GB, 1907-1914. Recollections of period as schoolchild in Harwich, GB, 1914-1918: description of father's employment as diver on floating dock; story of German hiding in dock yard; further description of floating dock and father's role as diver; question of safety procedure for divers; memory of outbreak of war, 1914; memory of troop ships and soldiers billeted in house; story of Zeppelin shot down over Harwich; story of unexploded bomb; importance of Harwich during war; education; story of German POWs stoned by local people; question of growing own food and rearing chickens; story of food being thrown out of training ship HMS Ganges; story of father finding corpse aboard German submarine in floating dock.
REEL 2 Continues: question of black market activity during war; memory of father fishing from floating dock; question of anti-German feeling; memory of underground shelter in school; story of uncle and 'Q' ship; effects of influenza epidemic on family and people of Harwich, 1918; memory of surrendered German submarines on River Stour. Aspects of life during Second World War including evacuation to Wales. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Smith, Lyn E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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