The individuals listed on this page remember what life was like at home. They moved to booming “war towns,” worked in defense industries, made the best of life in internment camps, contributed ...

3, p. 76. The First World War required the mobilisation of entire societies, regardless of age or gender. The phrase 'home front' was itself a product of the war with parts of Britain literally a war ...

"I was married and I left a pregnant wife at home," he recalled in a spring 2003 interview, at age 91. "Before I left, my mother had me light a candle in the corners of the house. 'Kneel ...

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