My first memory of the war was September 7th 1940 and I remember that my sister and me were sitting under...
June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2. Although the air raids on Belfast and other cities...
Because this was not diagnosed for a few weeks, it was suspected that the ankle bone had become tubercular...
My father was the Sergeant Mayor of the Home Guard in Crumpsall and my mother was the switchboard operator...
(1) My father an A.R.P warden was out nightly during the blitz.During the air raids I was in the dark...
This story is about my husband's grandfather who was awarded the George Medal. Albert George Chappel...
I was home from school for some minor illness and when the air raid sirens sounded I went down to the...
The night that Coventry was heavily bombed his mother took them outside the house to see the glow in the...
Married September 1939 Dark and wet October 17th 9pm 1940 Air raid warning 8.35 pm, after 10 minutes the...
One night the area around his home was subjected to an intense bombardment by German aircraft dropping both...
It should be pointed out that the parrot had lived with us in Roehampton before we moved to Ewell in the...
My Father lived with his mother in South East London. He had closed up his home and moved his mother to the...
Realizing how foolish it was to hide in a glass telephone booth, I ran out again and lay in the gutter with...
We were living in the suburbs of Bristol, Earnest was in the auxillary fire sevice stationed at...
I see a 3 year old sitting in a high chair in hospital, scrubbing the table with a piece of apple and...
Cardboard boxes did not last long on schoolboys shoulders and enterprising shops sold metal canisters for...
I have retained a keen interest into the events of that night and have researched the Essex County...
Having nothing better to do I went down to my Church, Falmouth Methodist Church on the Moor, where I knew...
St Anne's School was hit by a bomb... 1949 I got married, my husband George was a soldier in the...
During the latter half of the war my family were living in a requisitioned house at Ealing Common,West...
My sister was 3 yrs and I was 2yrs when WW2 started. my earliest memories were of going into the street in...
As my father looked up into the sky he saw what he thought looked like 'lit electric bulbs' seconds...