Report from the Liverpool Echo 6 May 1942 about the death of Emily, the sister of No.2 Commando Lance Corporal Levi Homer, six weeks after he was reported missing during Operation Chariot, the raid at St. Nazaire. 

Emily, aged 44 and a mother of ten children, felt that she had to do something for the war effort after the family were told her brother was missing in action so she began shifts at a war factory in Bootle.  Family helped out looking after the children. She died shortly after.. 

A few days later the family were advised that Levi was no longer missing but now a prisoner of war in Germany.