When Gordon Noble's family had to move from Thurso to Sheffield, they experienced separation

How did the war affect you and your family?

Well, I was, we were in Sheffield during the war, so there was separation there and it meant that women were on their own like everyone else that had to bring up the families on their own. Our father then, he went to Germany. He was at Belsen when Josef Kramer and Irma Grese and that sort of thing, so there was separation. Also, my mother's cousin, he was killed on a ship. The ship he was on is in the Legion just now - the big one, the Norfolk - but he went off that one onto a destroyer and a British battle-ship rammed them and he was lost on that. And in the First War another cousin was killed. I'm not sure if it's Givenchy or Givenches in France and the big battle that was there. And he had lied about his age to go off and be in the war, as a lot of people did in that days. So there was separation, you know, families were on their own.