Memoir: Wartime Memories

Reference code
HIS.SECO/4
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Item
Title
Memoir: Wartime Memories
Scope and content
A 1989 memoir from Pat Matchett of Finaghy, covering her experience of the war from 1939-1941. Covers reaction to outbreak, Local Defence Volunteers/Home Guard, the Phoney War, evacuation of Dunkirk, Lord Haw-Haw's broadcasts, the April 1941 Belfast Blitz, rationing and food shortages, work in the Censorship Department, Entertainments for National Services Association,