Look: Heroine of the Home Front ; Dawn Collinson Meets a Woman Who, 60 Years After the Conflict, Is Finally Being Honoured for Her War Effort

Liverpool EchoJuly 24, 2008

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IN 1940, barely out of her teens, Mary Vincent was hardly an expert on rural life.

"I didn't even know a bull from a cow," she laughs. "I remember being asked to bring cows into the dairy and I stood in a field petrified because I thought they were all bulls."

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Look: Heroine of the Home Front ; Dawn Collinson Meets a Woman Who, 60 Years After the Conflict, Is Finally Being Honoured for Her War Effort

But it was war time, bombs were raining down on Liverpool, and with the men away fighting, the home effort needed every pair of hands it could get.

Mary, from Lither land, was one of thousands of women...

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