The Second World War at home

'I thought of my brothers'

'It seemed terrible to be going away and killing them'

'He was really downhearted'

'I oppose this, I wish to go'

'The manpower are on to me'

'She was not allowed to take her Maori name'

'You got much less than the men'

'At school we had air raid trenches'

'You wondered whether you'd go bush'

'It got a lot of sewing done to it during the Cassino time'

'I just couldn't get out of the bath fast enough'

'Nobody consulted us'

'We had a proper little committee'

'The fences were doubled'

'He got a letter out to us somehow'

'I thought of all the terrible six years they'd been'

'I was surprised that there was this side to him'

'All those lovely young men'