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This Story has been submitted to the People’s War website by Anne Wareing of the Lancs. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard on behalf of Doroty Alice Dyson and has been added to the site with her permission…

I was born in 1922 in Scissett near Huddersfield. I was 16 when the war started and working as a hank winder in the same cotton mill, that my father was working in.. It was very quiet during the war, I don’t remember any bombs dropping in the area, although we could see them in the distance being dropped over Sheffield, there was a lot of manufacturing going on there. Life carried on as usual in spite of the rationing and the black out, as a young girl I used to go out dancing, but never dared have a flashlight with me, it wouldn’t do to show a chink of light.

I had known my husband to be since I was a girl, his name was Eric Dyson , he went in to the Royal Navy and was torpedoed of the coast of America and two or three of the crew lost their lives, but most survived. A family in Barbados took him in until they could send a ship to pick them all up. He kept in touch with the family and I went out to visit them two years ago.

He came home safe after the war and we married, him in his uniform and I wore a pink two piece with a brown hat, and we held the reception in the chapel..

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