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Postscript – After May Hill – Died 18th November 1944
# RECALLING MAY’S LAST SIGHT OF RON
# RON’S DEMOB AND RETURN HOME IN 1945
# VILLAGE WAR MEMORIAL – FOUR HILL FAMILY LOSSES
# MAY’S FAMILY – CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN
# DIARY AND POETRY PUBLICATIONS

Sadly, May’s war ended without the longed-for...
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Saturday Sep. 16 1944 10. o’c P.M.
# END OF ‘DOUBLE SUMMER TIME’
# LAST DAY OF TOTAL BLACKOUT
# JEAN INVESTIGATES TYPING LESSONS
# VISITING FAMILY GRAVES
# APPLE PICKING AND GARDENING
# NEW WAVE OF FLYING BOMBS

Tonight we put back our clocks one hour so that...
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Sun April 16. 44 2.o’c. p.m.
# EERIE STILLNESS WITH WILL NO LONGER AROUND
# ANSWERING LETTERS OF CONDOLENCE
# ANTICIPATING MOVING HOUSE

After dinner, I have just washed and changed...
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    • Postscript – After May Hill – Died 18th November 1944
      # RECALLING MAY’S LAST SIGHT OF RON
      # RON’S DEMOB AND RETURN HOME IN 1945
      # VILLAGE WAR MEMORIAL – FOUR HILL FAMILY LOSSES
      # MAY’S FAMILY – CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN
      # DIARY AND POETRY PUBLICATIONS
    • Undated – November 1944?
      “Tune Your Hearts to Brave Music”.
    • Sun. Nov 5 6.20 P.M. [1944]
      # REMEMBRANCE SERVICE AND PARADE
      # RENE VISITS BUT NOT FULLY WELL
      # BEATING ‘SPELLING BEE’ TEAM ON WIRELESS
      # TOY SALES CONTRIBUTE TO DOCTOR’S FEE
      # LAST WORDS ON BELOVED FLOWERS
    • Sat 8.50 pm Nov. 4. [1944]
      # GIRL GUIDE GWEN’S GOOD DEED
      # JEAN MAKES BONFIRE NIGHT TOFFEE
      # RENE ALMOST RECOVERED FROM ILLNESS
      # DIFFICULTY IN CONCENTRATING – FEELING DIZZY
    • Nov. 3 Fri 9.20 p.m. [1944]
      # LIBERATION OF BELGIUM REPORTED
      # FIRST SNOWFALL ON WESTERN FRONT
      # SURPRISE VISIT FROM RON’S EMMIE
      # FEARS OF V-2 ROCKET BOMBS
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    • May Hill was a seaside villager who wrote wonderful diaries and poetry during World War II. May’s only son Ron became a young volunteer in the RAF, her husband a Coastguard, and close family members early casualties. (Ron’s photo © AE Wrate, Skegness)
      May Hill's WWII Diaries
    • Diaries of CDC Dunford Wood – One man’s war day by day,  from Waziristan and the North West Frontier, Habbaniya, the Burma campaign, India & the Rhine.
      Story of War
    • This blog is made up of transcripts of Harry Lamin’s letters from the first World War. The letters will be posted exactly 90 years after they were written. To find out Harry’s fate, follow the blog!
      WWI: Experiences of an English Soldier
    • This site is dedicated to Krista’s father and mother and the many others who served in the forces, were PoWs or had any kind of first hand experience of living through World War II.
      WWII Memories
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