A Heroine WWII Housewife —

mitzi.flyte
3 min readMar 17, 2020

Her world changed drastically, too —

Nella in 1939 at the start of WWII

She was “just a housewife” in a small factory town in Lancashire, England during a time when her world seemed to be disintegrating around her.

Her name was Nella Last and she lived in Barrow-in-Furness. She was born in 1889 and died in 1968. Nella was married to William Last, a joiner with his own shop. They had two sons, Arthur and Clifford. They were a…

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