In Living Memory Contributions (Page 5) My Dad's memories of the Falklands War Interviewing my Nan I interviewed my mum about the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations Interview with my Great Granddad Interview with my Nan Interview with Granddad Interview with my Granddad My Dad's memories of the Falklands War By Gareth, aged 9 Q1: How old were you? 18 years old. Q2: What was your job? Still at school. Britain ruled the Falklands, Argentina didn’t approve because they thought they were their’s. Argentina kicked Britain out and Britain sent a fleet to get the Falkland Islands back, and won. Q3: How did you feel when the war broke out? Cross because some people had taken land off us. Q4: How did you feel when the war ended? Happy and the country was glad that no one else would die. Q5: How did you feel in the middle off the war? Nervous and concerned. I watched the war on T.V. Q6: Did you talk about it at school? Talked about it with excitement. Soldiers call marching “Yomping” and walked miles with heavy backpacks with food, drinks and tents inside. Interviewing My Nan By Elliot, aged 9 My nanny can remember World War 2, she said she remembered the siren going off so her family and her next door neighbours had to go into the air raid shelter. She said it was scary when it happened but nothing terrible ever happened to them. She remembered when the children had to wear their gas masks on the way to school just in case there were gas bombs. She said they had to ration food and they couldn’t have sweets, they had to have fruit. She remembered when Coventry got blown up. I interviewed my mum about the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations By Carys, aged 10 I asked my mum what it was like and she told me that she was 11 at the time and she remembers building up to the jubilee because of all the organisation and meetings with the local community. They were organising street parties. When it came to the day of the jubilee, there were great celebrations on the street all around the country. They had lots of games at the party with prizes, and they also had fancy dress. The adults were playing football in their fancy dress. Interview with my Great Granddad. By Tom My Granddad fought for the Germans in WWII And remembers a lot of things about it. He said that he was prisoner of war altogether for 5 years and he was taken to India, South Africa and England. He said he worked on a farm and at night all of them had to take off their boots so they couldn't run away. I asked him what were the good things and what were the bad things? He said that the bad things were they only got one shilling a day, and he had to leave his family in Italy. The good things were he met his wife here. He said the soldiers hit them with their guns if they weren't good enough and if he stayed in Africa he would have died. Interview with my Nan By Robert, aged 10 My Nan was born in 1939, it was the beginning of World War 2. My Nan said she could remember having a Mickey Mouse gas mask which was red. She had it in case a gas bomb dropped. She said they had to have ration books because there was a shortage of food because of the war. When the sirens went off every body had to go to shelters or they would go under the stairs like my Nan. They used to have very dark curtains called black out curtains. There were to stop light from shining through on to the street. One night an incendiary bomb was dropped on a house by my Nan’s road in Wolverhampton. They used to have dried bananas, my Nan had never seen a fresh one before. Then one day the shop had a load delivered, every body had to quickly run but when my Nan got to the counter the bananas had all gone. The children were only allowed around 4OZ of sweets a week. One day Nan went to Ireland where there was no rationings and her uncle gave her £2.00 so she could get as many sweets she wanted. When the war ended my Nan said every body had a street party. Interview with Granddad By Jamie, aged 10 My granddad was born in 1937. The war began in 1939/1945. My granddad’s dad went to war in 1939 and my granddad didn’t see him until he was 7. His ship was sunk by a destroyer. Four days later he was taken to Berlin. Evacuees also came to my granddad’s village, one of them lived with him. A doodlebug (flying bomb) also passed over his village.   Interview with my Granddad By Joe, aged 10 The Second World War started in 1939. My Granddad was born one year later. He lived in Birmingham and his house got bombed and the top of his wardrobe was ripped off by of shrapnel. In blackouts he and his family slept under the stairs. The Germans were heard because of the whistling bombs they used so then they went to their shelters. You couldn't buy food without ration books you could not buy sweets, meat, butter or eggs, which came tins. The main things you could buy were jam fritters and Spam. My Granddad said sometimes you would have Spam for breakfast, lunch and tea. The deeper the shelter was the safer you were. When sirens sounded the home guard escorted people to shelters or bunkers. When Coventry was bombed you could see the flames from Birmingham. My Great Granddad worked at B.S.A gun testing. One night he did not go to work, when he went back the next morning it had been bombed and 30 people died.   About Living Memories