Introducing Friend Connie

I was born in February 1914 and war started in August so I can’t remember the actual war. After all there wasn’t any fighting in England in the First World War, it was all in Europe. I can remember that during the war we used to have people staying, there was always someone staying, somebody new. I think my mother had to take in lodgers. To help with the money. And I can remember my father coming home from the war, probably in 1918. I can remember him coming through the door and I just said, ‘Oh Dad’s back’. That’s it. I didn’t really think much about the war as a kid. 

Read more in this biography by Elizabeth Plumridge.