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  • Hall, Freddy
    1
  • Hamburg
    1
  • hand-grenade and explosives training
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    2
  • hand-to-hand fighting
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  • Hannington, Wal
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  • hardening of attitudes
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  • Hardy, Ken
    1
  • Harris, Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’
    1
  • harvest camps
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  • Harvey, Arthur
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  • Heihachiro, Togo
    1
  • Henderson, Stuart
    1
  • Henriques, Basil
    1
  • Highland Light Infantry
    1
  • Highland Princess
    1
  • Hill, Ronald
    1
  • Hindman, Ruth
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  • Hipkin, John
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  • Hissey, Gordon
    1
  • Hitler Youth
    1
    ,
    2
  • Hoare, Sir Samuel
    1
  • Hobbs, Dennis
    1
  • Holmes, Nicky
    1
  • Holsgrove, Richard
    1
  • Home Guard
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    • anti-aircraft units
      1
    • casualties
      1
    • lower age limit
      1
    • messengers
      1
    • role
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • school units
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • training
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    • weapons
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      ,
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    • young recruits
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  • homelessness
    1
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    4
  • homosexuality
    1
    ,
    2
  • HMS
    Hood
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    4
  • Hopkins, Raymond
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  • horrors of war, psychological impact of
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  • hospital duties
    1
    ,
    2
    • see also
      first-aid duties; stretcher-bearers
  • hospital ships
    1
  • Hotchkiss machine guns
    1
  • Howard, Michael
    1
  • HMS
    Howe
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    2
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    3
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    4
  • Hudson, Norman
    1
  • Hull
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    ,
    2
  • Hulten, Karl Gustav
    1
  • Hunt, James
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    ,
    2
  • HMS
    Hurricane
    1
  • Hutchinson, Jim
    1
  • ID cards
    1
  • MV
    Idaho
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  • Immelman, Christian
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  • HMS
    Impregnable
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  • incendiary bombs
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  • independence
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  • SS
    Induna
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  • Infantry Training Centre
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    ,
    2
  • Ingham Old Hall
    1
    ,
    2
  • innocence, loss of
    1
    ,
    2
  • intelligence training
    1
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    2
  • invasion, threat of
    1
  • Iraq
    1
  • HMS
    Iron Duke
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    2
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    3
  • Irving, Joan
    1
  • Isbister, James
    1
  • Italian campaign
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Japanese prisoners of war
    1
  • Jeanie (Clydebank teenager)
    1
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    3
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    4
  • HMS
    Jervis
    Bay
    1
  • Jewish families
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • jingoism
    1
  • Jones, Jack
    1
  • Joyce, William (‘Lord Haw-Haw’)
    1
  • kamikaze attacks
    1
  • Kavanagh, Tommy
    1
  • SS
    Kemmendine
    1
  • HMS
    King George
    V
    1
    ,
    2
  • King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
    1
  • King’s Royal Rifle Corps
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  • Knight, Esmond
    1
  • Knowlden, Patricia
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  • Kops, Bernard
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  • Korean War
    1
  • La Pallice
    1
  • labouring work
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    2
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    3
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  • Land Army
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    2
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  • Leagas, Ron
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  • Leicestershire Regiment
    1
  • HS
    Leinster
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  • Leonard, Alfred
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  • Lewis, Kenneth
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  • Lewis, Raymond
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  • ‘live for today’ mentality
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  • Liverpool
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  • Local Defence Volunteers (LDV)
    1
    • see also
      Home Guard
  • London
  • Longden, Anthony
    1
  • Longfield, John
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    3
  • looting
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  • Lovat Scouts
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  • SS
    Lustrous
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    2
  • McDermott-Brown, Leslie
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  • McGeouch, J.
    1
  • Mackenzie, June
    1
  • McLellan, Andrew
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  • McMahon, Lewis
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    ,
    2
  • Maldives
    1
  • Manchester
    1
  • HMS
    Manchester
    1
  • Manningham, Bill
    1
  • Margaret, Princess
    1
  • Marina
    1
  • Martin, Eric
    1
  • medicals
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  • Melly, George
    1
  • Merchant Navy
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    • achievements
      1
    • apprenticeships
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    • battle for Normandy
      1
    • battleship attacks
      1
    • bomb attacks
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    • boy casualties
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    • boy sailors
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    • dangers
      1
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      2
    • deck crew
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    • discipline
      1
      ,
      2
    • ease of joining
      1
    • end of the war
      1
    • foreign ships
      1
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    • gallantry awards
      1
    • galley boys
      1
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      2
    • homosexuality
      1
    • hospital ships
      1
    • onboard life
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      2
    • ordinary seamen (OS)
      1
    • pay
      1
      ,
      2
    • ‘Pool’ system
      1
    • port leave experiences
      1
    • prisoners of war
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    • rites of passage
      1
    • ship maintenance duties
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    • shopping and bartering abroad
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    • sinkings
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    • stokers
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    • storms
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    • submarine attacks
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    • training
      1
      ,
      2
    • troopships
      1
      ,
      2
    • uniforms and kit
      1
    • war in the Far East
      1
  • messengers
    1
    ,
    2
    • ARP
      1
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      2
      ,
      3
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    • Girl Guides
      1
    • Home Guard
      1
    • police and fire service
      1
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      2
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      3
    • Post Office
      1
      ,
      2
    • telegram boys
      1
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      2
  • Milag Nord
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    2
    ,
    3
  • minefields
    1
  • mines
    • acoustic mines
      1
    • parachute mines
      1
      ,
      2
    • sea
      1
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      2
      ,
      3
  • Molotov cocktails
    1
  • moral standards, changing
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  • morale
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  • Morley, Eric
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  • Morris, Alf
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  • Morrison shelters
    1
  • Morse, Douglas
    1
  • Morse code
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    2
    ,
    3
  • Mosley, Oswald
    1
  • mothers
    • daily routine
      1
    • working
      1
      ,
      2
  • Mountford, Harry
    1
  • Moynihan, Tony
    1
  • Mulberry Harbours
    1
    ,
    2
  • Munich crisis
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    2
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  • munitions factories
    1
  • Murmansk
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