1910-1949 newspaper articles on youth

Western Morning news - 1939 – Positive article about how young woman volunteer themselves as nurses at St Lawrences Hospital; Praises from the matron “I should like to thank the nurses for the noble work they have done in preparing the hospital, the whole of the staff have volunteered for the work.”

 

Cornish guardian 1939 – Headline: Outstanding Heroeism Reward – “Service by rocket saving life company, for rescuing 3 lives from the SS medea on Grenaway rocks.

 

Telegraphy -1940  -  Headline: Suicide Squad – “Removing time bombs which might go off at a moments notice is just part of the days job to these cheerful members of the bomb disposal unit. Here they are ready with their tackle about to dig down to find the deadly engine below.”

 

Sunday Pictorial – August 20^th 1944 – “Because victoriy is nearer, our men do not slacken in their efforts. Because they have had successes.”

 

Daily Mail - 1939 – “There were casualties perhaps inevitable for the remarkable view..these men laid down their lives for this country.” Talks about how they were killed hereoically in action.

 

Daily Mail – 1940 - Recruits pouring in to home services – “Recruits poured in for the new volunteer defense corpses, for A.R.P and the  A.F.S and for the vitally important nursing service.”

 

Daily Mail – 1941 – “British troops taking a well earned rest from a grooling mornings training somewhere in France.”

 

Daily Mail - 1940 - Headline: Streamers greeted them -  “Streamers were thrown over the men of the cruisers Exeter and Ajax, victors in the ‘Plate’ battles as they marched through Plymouth.”

 

Sunday pictorial – August 20^TH 1944 – “If you are over 17 half and under 19, you are needed now for vital work.”