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One In Five

Everyone you know has been affected by the Second World War. Look through the letters, photographs, diaries and other interesting items from the lives of our featured stories to discover how it affected these particular individuals.

Beryl Myatt

‘You will have to think of the whole sea as poor little Beryl’s grave’

Dennis Knight

‘I don’t believe it!’

HMS Belfast

‘You gradually came together as a family’

Jimmy Ritchie

‘I’m a Welshman’

Kenneth Muir

‘Will write in a couple of days time’

Leonard Cheshire

‘Our human family’

Robert Frazer

‘I don’t see myself as a hero’

William Rose

‘It was time for reconciliation’

Doris and Anna Zinkeisen

‘The place had to be seen to be believed’

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