Interview with Dee Moss

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Object description

British schoolchild evacuated from Leyton to Billericay, GB, 1939-1941; civilian in London, GB, 1941-1945

Content description

REEL 1 Recollections of period as child living in Leyton, GB, 1925-1939: family circumstances; education; father's military service in First World War; reaction to potential war; sight of Blackshirts of British Union of Fascists marching in Leyton; father's attitude towards Germans; memories of Munich Crisis, 9/1938 including visit to Downing Street to see Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on his return; gas mask fittings; increase in marriages; food hoarding; construction of family air raid shelter; evacuation from Leyton, 2/9/1939. Recollections of period as evacuee from Leyton to Billericay and civilian in London, GB, 1939-1945: reads letter dated, 4/9/1939; being caught in German Air Force raid; billeting with wealthy family. REEL 2 Continues: visits of parents; German Air Force strafing of civilian targets; weekend visits to family; school friend killed in air raid; atmosphere amongst civilians, summer 1940; father's attempt to enlist in British Army and subsequent role with Air Raid Precautions; effect on father of dealing with air raid casualties including accidental deaths at Bethnal Green Underground Station; father's discovery of dead body; reaction to German Air Force raids; story of women who shared air raid shelter and later became casualties; amusing story of sheltering in air raid shelter; method of lighting and heating shelter; ablution facilities. REEL 3 Continues: reaction to loss of school friend; family living arrangements during heavy German Air Force raids; bomb damage to family home; rationing; effect of daylight bombing raids; first German V1 Flying Bomb attack witnessed by father, 1944; work as librarian in Westminster; sheltering from German V1 Flying Bombs, 1944; repairs to family home; family system devised to warn of air raid; listening to radio; story of dealing with collapsed father, 1940; supplementing rations with rabbit and whale meat; reaction to father's friend sending grapes to injured German Air Force man; amusing story of cousin attending tribunal; background to meeting husband serving in Royal Air Force; reaction to VE Day, 8/5/1945; reaction to dropping of atomic bombs on Japan, 8/1945; accidental firework burns to civilians in Weymouth on VJ Day, 15/8/1945; status of family at end of Second World War.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Moss, Simon (Recorder)
Moss, Dee (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1999-10-20
Dimensions: whole: Duration 90, Number Of Items 3
Catalogue number: 19862

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Associated people and organisations

Moss, Dee
British Government, Air Raid Precautions
Royal Air Force
London Underground Station, Bethnal Green
German Air Force
British Political Party, British Union of Fascists
Associated places

England, United Kingdom
Leyton, Essex, England, United Kingdom
Billericay, Essex, England, United Kingdom
London, England, United Kingdom
Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England, United Kingdom
Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom
Associated themes

Civilian Life and War Work, 1939-1945: Home Front, 1939-1945

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Interview with Dee Moss

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