Worksheet: How did the War affect different people?
People who hosted evacuees
 I am a mother, who lived in Oswestry during World War Two. We saw a poster saying "Thank-you ______________", and we decided we wanted to become a billet for an evacuee. We looked after one child, and we were paid _____s_____d by the government for taking one child. If we had taken two children, we would have been paid _____s_____d. The bombs never fell near us.
Ordinary people in the country
When rationing was introduced, we could no longer get as much _____________ and other food as we wanted. We helped to recycle scrap metal like _______________ to support the war effort. The bombs didn't affect us directly.
Farmers
I owned a farm near Oswestry. The government sent me a leaflet encouraging me to _________ _________! Schools also helped the farmers grow food. They helped out by planting potatoes in their playing fields, and the Board of Education instructed them to _______________ in the ____________.
Evacuees
I am an evacuee who lived in Liverpool. People who lived in the cities were afraid of the __________________. We built air raid _______________ but these did not stop the bombers hitting Liverpool. We were taken to the country on special trains. We wore a white diamond on our sleeves, and carried a ___________ ____________ in a box. Life in the country impressed me as being ____________ ____________.
Parents of evacuees
We are the parents of an evacuee from Liverpool. We missed our child very much, but we were very happy that he was in the country because the bombing in the cities was bad. One day we went on a ________ _________. We brought with us tokens of ____________ for the host families.
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