Box 47: Families in Wartime 1939-1945

Part 1:  Evacuation

1.  Poster: Will you share a small burden with your neighbour?
2.  Booklet: Letters from a War Child
3.  Poster: Evacuees at the Station
4.  Book: Evacuees of the Second World War
5.  Book: Wartime Childhood
6.  Stanley Lodder’s School Essay, 6 October 1938
7.  Public Information Leaflet 3: Evacuation, Why and How?
8.  Poster: Find out more about Evacuees
9.  Play time for Evacuees
10.  Promotion leaflet: Children are safer in the country
11.  Boy’s Own Magazine, December 1944
12.  Postcard: Evacuees boarding a train
13.  Children's Newspaper, 15 February 1941

Part 2:  Men at Work

1.  ESSO Oil Can
2.  Book: Working for Victory on the Home Front - Go to it!
3.  Book: Life on the Home Front
4.  Book: The Royal Marines
5.  Poster: Plough Now
6.  A Soldier’s Service and Pay Book
7.  National Registration Identity Card for Harold Vernon
8.  A Resident's Record of Military Service during WW2
9.  Military Defence: A Home Guard Exercise
10.  Military Defence: Gun Battery Emplacement, Worthing
11.  Picture of an Air Raid Warden’s Post
12.  Poster: Civil Defence Workers
13.  Alfred Jacob: Medical Request Letter; Enlistment Notice; 2 x Embarkation Cards; Certificate of Transfer to Army Reserve; Soldiers Release Book; War Department Driving Permit; Document of Authority for Personnel Returning to UK
14.  Application for Reinstatement in Civil Employment

Part 3:  Women at Work

1.  Book: The Women's Land Army
2.  Poem: Women's Land Army 1915 - 1950
3.  Sketch - Women of the Land Army
4.  Poster: I want you for the Navy
5.  Poster: Lest We Forget
6.  Wartime Magazines advertising the Land Army
7.  Poster: Join the Women's Land Army
8.  World War II - the Royal’s visit to Land Army
9.  Poster: Victory Harvest
10.  Newspaper article - Women's Land Army Reunion in Horsham
11.  Booklet - Life in the WRNS
12.  National Defence Pocket Book
13.  WAAF Association News Book
14.  Join the WAAF - Recruitment Advert
15.  Leaflet: A Woman's Place Now
16.  Ordinance Survey Pass
17.  Windscreen Card - Come into the Factories
18.  Women's Royal Naval Service Recruitment Adverts
19.  Women's Land Army Leave Request
20.  Join us in a Victory Job Postcard
21.  Leaflet: Women's Land Army Members
22.  Folder containing various photographs, letters and memoirs
23.  Land Army Song “Back to the Land”
24.  Women's Land Army - Hints for Members
25.  Drivers Award Medal, 1939-40

Part 4:  At Home in Wartime

1.  Blackout Curtain
2.  Ministry of Food Ration Book
3.  Home Diary, 1942
4.  Make Do and Mend
5.  Poster: When can I have a banana again?
6.  Leaflet: If an invader comes
7.  1942-43 Clothing Ration Book
8.  Poster: Utility Clothing
9.  Poster: And what did things cost
10.  The Official ARP Handbook
11.  Booklet: The Protection of your Home against Air Raids
12.  Booklet: First Aid and Nursing for Gas Casualties
13.  Civil Defence – Somethings you should know if war should come
14.  Leaflet: Civil Defence - Your Gas Mask
15.  Leaflet: What the householder is asked to do
16.  Leaflet: Mother and Child in Wartime
17.  Home Notes Magazine
18.  Mixed Grill and Wartime Recipes
19.  1946 - 47 Clothing Ration Book
20.  National Identity Card
21.  Churchill and the Home Guard Postcard
22.  2x Motor Fuel Ration Books
23.  Booklet: How to Keep Well in Wartime
24.  Puddings and Sweets Recipes
25.  Booklet: Good fair in wartime
26.  Home Companion Magazine
27.  Poster: Military Sweetheart Jewellery
28.  The Week before the War Magazine Supplement

Part 5:  VE Day

1. VE Day Parade in the Carfax, Horsham Photo
2.  Poster: VE Day in the Countryside
3.  Street Party Photo
4.  Poster: RT Radio Programmes 1948 poster
5.  Poster: Wartime Larder
6.  Poster: Welcome Back
7.  “Illustrated” Victory Portrait of Winston Churchill
8.  What did Things Cost?
9.  3 x Black and White VE Celebration Picture Sheets
10.  Poster: Winston Churchill and Montgomery
11.  Poster: Clothes Rationing Women and Girls
12.  Poster: Food rationing points value

General Items

1.  Down Your Way War Years Special Magazine
2.  Poster: Bovril War Diary
3.  Poster: My Girl’s a Wow -
4.  Book: Life on the Home Front
5.  Book: Working for Victory on the Home Front, 1939 - 1945
6.  Glass Kilner Jar
7.  Wartime Memories CD
8.  A Pair of Leather Gaiters
9.  ESSO oil can
10.  4 x Badges - Women's Land Army, Women's British Legion, Barnardo Helpers, Comfort’s Committee Voluntary Worker
11.  National Service Medal, 1939 - 1960

Total: 103 Items.  Value:  £250

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