‘Getting food parcels during the war was like birthdays and Christmas all at once’

Poverty was rife in the mid 1940s, so receiving Care packages was a lifeline for many families (Picture: Care International)Tim Thomas was four years old when the much-anticipated box arrived on his family’s rural Wiltshire doorstep. The Thomases didn’t know when the parcel would arrive – or what would be inside it – but when it did, it was like ‘Christmas and your birthday all come at once’, Tim remembers.Recalling his experiences on the 80th anniversary of