National Association of Training Corps for Girls

Smart Girls Of The G.T.C. (1941)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_joiOHyojKo

The National Association of Training Corps for Girls was formed in 1940 and was the umbrella organisation for the Girls Training Corps (GTC), Girls' Nautical Training Corps (GNTC) and Women's Junior Air Corps (WJAC).
https://youtu.be/SWMOUWV_w0M?t=44s
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/48/a1944948.shtml

Girls Training Corps. This was a national organisation whose aim was to offer instruction to girls [between the ages of 14 and 18] in the skills which they would need if and when they joined the services. So we learnt the Morse Code from an instructor who was based at a local army camp, some aircraft recognition, map reading, took army drill instruction and assisted the Air Raid wardens on their rounds. We were issued with a uniform which was best described as ‘functional’!

All of this was somehow fitted in at weekends or in the evenings after work.

The Air Training Corps was already well established for young boys and with similar aims.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/87/a7274487.shtml

In 1942, the Girls' Naval Training Corps was formed as part of the National Association of Training Corps for Girls, with Units mainly in southern England. Its objective was congruent with that of the Sea Cadet Corps, teaching girls the same seamanship skills as the SCC taught the boys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%27_Nautical_Training_Corps
https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Sea_Cadets_(disambiguation)

The National Association of Training Corps for Girls was formed as the umbrella organisation responsible for the GTC (Girls Training Corps) GNTC (Girls Nautical Corps) and the WJAC (Women’s Junior Air Corps) later on after the war the GTC and WJAC amalgamated to become the Girls Venture Corps. The GTC was disbanded and wound up in 1948. The main reason being that after the war there seemed to be a lack of interest, need and motivation.

Their uniform consisted of Black shoes, Navy skirt, White blouse, Navy tie, GTC badge and Navy forage hat/ chip bag hat. School playgrounds became their parade ground; company 646 used Somercotes Infants School. They became proficient in marching, often displaying this on parades through the streets. Many of the groups had a Sergeant Major training them. For exercises and keep fit they had a PE Teacher. Somercotes PE Teacher was Doug Barrett, My Step mum who is now 92 remembers him well. Typical training was on homemaking, craftsmanship, public affairs. Lectures were given by the Red Cross on home nursing, first aid, practical bed making, ambulance work, stretcher bearing and sanitation. They were also taught leadership skills, etiquette, and an insight into local government, map reading and Morse code to enable them to deliver messages on their push bikes in time of War or in the event of invasion. They were apparently even trained to fire a rifle.
http://www.somercoteshistory.co.uk/ww2featured.asp

National Association of Training Corps for Girls - Wikipedia

National Loaf

The National Loaf was an unpopular government-regulated and -mandated loaf of bread distributed in Britain from April 6, 1942. National Loaf bread was made from wholemeal flour with added calcium and vitamins. It was introduced in Britain in 1942 by the Federation of Bakers (FOB), set up in 1942 to produce the National Loaf. 

The loaf, similar to today's brown bread, was made from wholemeal flour to combat wartime shortages of white flour. The National Loaf was grey, mushy and unappetising; only one person in seven preferred it to white bread, which became unavailable. The government insisted on modifying flour because it saved space in shipping food to Britain, allowed better utilization of existing stocks of wheat, and discouraged the immoderate consumption of bread. The loaf was abolished in October 1956.

Although other food stuffs had been rationed since January 8 1940, the British government was reluctant to ration wheat or bread. Faced with shortages, the Ministry of Food reduced the amount of imported wheat required in the production of unrationed bread. Their compromise was the creation of “National Wheatmeal Flour” or “National Flour” in the spring of 1942.

“National wheatmeal flour” was unbleached flour of 85% extraction from hulled wheat grains, where 85% meant that 100 kg of wheat grains yielded 85 kg of flour. The flour included the starchy endosperm, the wheat germ, and the bran, with the coarser bran extracted. White flour is generally around 70% extraction, yielding 70 kg. Thus, increasing to 85% extraction rate provided an extra 15 kg of flour from that wheat. National Flour was consequently similar to wholemeal (aka wholewheat) flour, but with some of the coarser bran removed. For bread-making, some white flour was added.

White flour was still produced and imported during the war, but it could only be obtained by food manufacturers for items such as biscuits, cakes, etc, or for mixing in small quantities into 85% extraction flour to make National Flour. Flour milled in Britain, whether from domestically-grown or imported wheat, was 80% extraction (by 1945.) Imported already-milled flour was 75% extraction. To make National Flour, the imported flour was mixed in with domestic flour at a rate of about 15% imported, 85% domestic. In Scotland, for some varieties of national bread such as batch bread, etc, bakers were allowed to mix in up to an extra 12 1/2 % of imported flour.

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The evacuation of civilians in Britain during the Second World War was designed to protect civilians in Britain, particularly children, from the risks associated with aerial bombing of cities by moving them to areas thought to be less at risk. Operation Pied Piper, which began on 1 September 1939, officially relocated more than 3.5 million people. Further waves of official evacuation and re-evacuation occurred on the south and east coasts in June 1940, when a seaborne invasion was expected, and from affected cities after the Blitz began in September 1940. There were also official evacuations from the UK to other parts of the British Empire, and many non-official evacuations within and from the UK. Other mass movements of civilians included British citizens arriving from the Channel Islands, and displaced people arriving from continental Europe.

Government functions were also evacuated. Under "Plan Yellow", some 23,000 civil servants and their paperwork were dispatched to available hotels in the better coastal resorts and spa towns. Other hotels were requisitioned and emptied for a possible last-ditch "Black Move" should London be destroyed or threatened by invasion. Under this plan, the nucleus of government would relocate to the West Midlands—the War Cabinet and ministers would move to Hindlip Hall, Bevere House and Malvern College near Worcester and Parliament to Stratford-upon-Avon. Winston Churchill was to relocate to Spetchley Park whilst King George VI and other members of the royal family would take up residence at Madresfield Court near Malvern.

Some strained areas took the children into local schools by adopting the WW1 expedient of double shift education—taking twice as long but also doubling the number taught. The movement of teachers also meant that almost a million children staying home had no source of education.
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The Government Evacuation Scheme was developed during summer 1938 by the Anderson Committee and implemented by the Ministry of Health. The country was divided into zones, classified as either "evacuation", "neutral", or "reception", with priority evacuees being moved from the major urban centres and billeted on the available private housing in more rural areas. Each zone covered roughly a third of the population, although several urban areas later bombed had not been classified for evacuation. In early 1939, the reception areas compiled lists of available housing. Space for a couple of thousand people was found, and the government also constructed camps which provided a few thousand additional spaces.

In summer 1939, the government began to publicise its plan through the local authorities. They had overestimated demand: only half of all school-aged children were moved from the urban areas instead of the expected 80%. There was enormous regional variation: as few as 15% of the children were evacuated from some urban areas, while over 60% of children were evacuated in Manchester and Belfast and Liverpool. The refusal of the central government to spend large sums on preparation also reduced the effectiveness of the plan. In the event over 1,474,000 people were evacuated.

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