WARTIME EXPERIENCES: A collection of short stories from members of the Country Women's Institute

Published by Country Women's Institute, Wellington NZ, April 1996

Card cover, 116 pages of text and illustrations.

Excellent condition

Memoirs from the length and breadth of New Zealand

"Wartime Experiences"is not a history book but a collection of personal wartime experiences written by members of the Country Women's Institute recalling their memories of that time in history.

There are special memories of life with the NZWAC, wartime in London, air raid shelters, life as a child evacuee, memories of a dispatch rider with the Navy, preparation of food parcels to New Zealand servicemen, fundraising for patriotic purposes...

CONTRIBUTORS:

OLIVIA JANSEN AUDREA BEDDIE ZANNE ARAM MAJORIE MAUNSELL KIT KENYON ALIX COLES JESSIE IVICCLUNIE MARGARET BRECKON (nee HILL) DORIS MAY FRANCES WILKS MARJ KILPATRICK BESSIE BELL A DULEY E.R. WALLACE KAY BUCKNER MARIAN BEZETT DAISY MITCHELL IVY FAULKNER JOYCE BENNETT D.M. GUMMER PATRICIA WIGGINS AVERIL DREW BERYL LUKEY MADGE MALCOLM YVONNE TOMPSETT COREEN GRAY JENNY WATTS BRENDA DAVIES BETTY HUMPHREY SHEILA MARTIN BOBBIE MAITLAND KATHLEEN INGRAM NELLIE ROSS BARBARA THOMAS JENNY COOPER JUNE MARTIN KATH WILCOCK MAIDA COUGHLAN MARGARET YARDLEY CORAL CONLAN MOLLY THOMPSON