WARTIME and
NATIONAL SERVICE:
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Jack’s family
Evacuation to Retford
Escape from evacuation
Farm work - and a plane crash
School holidays
The family in wartime
Shropshire to Norfolk
Doodlebug
The searchlight and gun
Seaplanes and Sunday walks
The trenches at school
Evacuees
Father back from the war
Baby’s gas mask
Talking about the war
Grandpa injured in the Great War
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Photo from family collection
Jack Aldred describes his family - and how he attended his parents’ wedding…, lists his brothers and sisters and talks of how his father was away all through the war.
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