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Description: | French schoolchild in France and Belgium, 1914-1918
REEL 1 Aspects of life in Lille, France, pre-1914. Recollections of life in France and Belgium, 1914-1918: description of three day bombardment of Lille, 1914; occupation of Lille by Germans; attitude towards German troops; shortages; hiding items to be requisitioned by Germans; story of how her aunt and other women smuggled food in from Belgium; education; story of how German officer passed her mother a letter from her husband; evacuation to Spa, Belgium, 1/1918.
REEL 2 Continues: journey to Spa in cattle trucks; using saucepans as toilets; arrival in Spa; accommodation on farm; living conditions; education; gathering and sawing wood from forrests; transportation to Basle, 7/1918; move to Chausson; accommodation; illness of mother; lifestyle in Chausson area.
REEL 3 Continues: reunion with father; return to Lille after liberation; flu epidemic; receiving Red Cross parcels. Various aspects of work with Women's Auxiliary Air Force, 1939-1945 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Reid, Helena Marie Therese | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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