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Geraldine Miller<br />
My grandparents Patrick Joseph Long and<br />
Elizabeth Suzanne Long married when they were<br />
both in their teens. Elizabeth was an only child as<br />
her mother died when she was very young. Her<br />
father worked for the furniture makers Waring and<br />
Gillows. Elizabeth was living in Shropshire with<br />
her father at the time but when her father died<br />
when she was only 18, she decided to come to live<br />
in Liverpool. Shortly after moving there, she met<br />
my granddad, who worked on the docks. They<br />
went on to get engaged, and after their wedding<br />
they moved into a house in Salisbury Street in the<br />
Everton district of Liverpool.<br />
By the time World War I broke out in 1914, they<br />
had two children, a son and a daughter, and were<br />
expecting their third child. My granddad enlisted<br />
for the army and was sent away to fight in the<br />
trenches in France. The noise and the gas would<br />
cause him to suffer hearing loss later in his life.<br />
Unfortunately he was captured during a raid and<br />
taken by the Germans to a prisoner of war camp.<br />
During his time in the camp my granddad wrote<br />
regularly to his wife. Some of the letters did not<br />
make it to her, but those that did were heavily<br />
censored. The Germans monitored all the letters<br />
that the prisoners sent or received so a lot of what<br />
my granddad wrote was crossed out.<br />
After a few months the letters stopped coming<br />
and the War Department sent my nan a letter<br />
saying that her husband was missing and<br />
presumed dead. She was devastated as she was<br />
by then heavily pregnant and had two pre-school<br />
children to raise on her own. She decided that<br />
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