During WW2 my Grandmother had six sons serving in the Army, one being my Father. She gave an interview to the Liverpool Evening Express in 1940 and they reported she had six sons in the army and a Boy Scout. Many mothers had six sons serving and perhaps we should have asked them what stress was like. I wondered why the Express thought it was significant to mention a son in the boy scouts, it was because of their national war service.
I lived through the war years but did not know of any of any involvement with scouts assisting the armed services or the civil defence and I was a scout myself . It was a surprise for me
At the moment I have access to the papers, there's plenty of snippets between 1940 and 45 of their exploits, too numerous to mention. Just a couple I decided to read reports on a couple of scouts receiving the Silver Cross Medal for bravery, delivering messages while the bombs were falling during the blitz. The Birkenhead news hasn't popped up with a snippet, below is the Liverpool Echo, 1941.
God help us, Come yourself, Don't send Jesus, This is no place for children.
