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The East Grinstead Front

I was in a teashop along the London-road when a lone raider released eight high explosive bombs over the...

The First Air Raid: Over the Firth of Forth

I stopped to watch Junkers 88s etc. versus Spitfires, naval guns and shore artillery, but when the...

November 24th 1940: A Minor Incident at St Francis, Bristol

It was normal on a Sunday evening in those far off days before the Second World War for my parents to take...

Fred McEwan and the Home Guard Rescue the Caretaker's Family at Hulme Town Hall

Fred McEwan and his colleague Joseph McKeown were serving in the C Company of the 46th Battalion Home Guard...

War, Romance, Fashion and Dancing

We had an Anderson Shelter in the back garden and from that night, I didn't sleep in my bed again, I...

Education and the Underground

So my mother was organising for me to go to a London school which had been evacuated to Kettering, called...

My Teenage Years - Dorothy Holdbrook (nee Driscoll)

A group of us were evacuated to Dulverton in Somerset, escorted by a wonderful teacher, Mr Beaumont and his...

WAAF Experiences - RADAR Chain Home Low

Amalgamated Press — London WAAF — Radar Operator — Chain Home Low Gloucester —...

Living Through The Blitz

We lived in NW London, near Hampstead Heath where they had Barrage balloons and an anti-aircraft battery:...

Child of the war story by Marionne

My mother took us away as evacuees again to Frampton Mansell in the Cotswolds — lovely country but...

My War:Childhood memories of Merseyside

Unbeknown to me then, Mum & Dad put me down for this scheme but had second thoughts after the...

Wartime Crumpsall by Elsie Bamforth

There was one incident when our leader, a rather wealthy lady, came straight from a party and took her posh...

Back-garden Shelters in the London Blitz

TRAGEDY Not long after our return there was no air-raid alert when we heard a lone plane and the whistle of...

VE Day Street Party

The other nurse was a London girl and her name was Jean. It was 1944 and the incendiary and other bombs had...

Childhood Memories until 1941 of Wallasey Cheshire, including the Blitz

My brother was born on 21st December 1940 and due to the bombing my mother decided it was safer to leave...

War Memories On the Isle of Wight

I was born in 1930 on the Isle of Wight, the youngest of 4 brothers and 3 sisters. My eldest brother was...

Memories of 1939/40

Returning from Dunkirk, my godfather, John Skelsey, - I think an officer in the Highland Division at the...

St.Annes Convalescent Home The Night the Bombs Fell.

He was at home in Bridlington when the air raid sirens sounded,but remained indoors with the family...

Memories of the Merseyside Blitz

Back home in the town by the river Mersey, my father, who was an ARP warden, had noted that the strongest...

10 January 1941 — The Blitz — Portsmouth

I had slippers on my feet, which were sodden because of walking through all the water in the streets in...

Wartime Memories of Iris Mace

Because it was anticipated that the station would be a target for bombing, the L.M.S. business was moved to...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experinces 6 -air raids and the attack on the WAAFS barrage ballon

Beryl and I had just got to the house when dad, who was in the extended part of thhe garden, called us...

Bombed and Evacuated from Hull

As Hull was one of the main targets for the German Luftwaffe, there was always a danger from the bombs so...

When I Was Ten During WW2

While taking a short cut through Bold Street we came across a number of bodies blown to pieces by the...

My WW2 Memories: Childhood in London

Mum used to get furious and upset when the Bedford people would stand at night and watch the red glow over...

This account of one day in 1940 is taken directly from my daily war-time diaries which I kept as a school girl, living in Kent.

The all clear at 2.10p.m. When 3 friends came to help Dad with the roof of the dug-out, they told us that...