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Harry Baker's Journal

Extracts from the Journal of 1429538 Gunner Thomas Henry Baker - Royal Artillery, of Hull. Later, my...

Early years

From leaving school at the age of fourteen he had done various jobs in the motor cycle and car factories of...

Memories of Black Saturday

A bomb had fallen on the Conference Hall, another had landed just round the corner in Widdin Street, and to...

Schoolboy in WW2

One December night one of many incendiary bombs fell in the road outside old man Bull's house, near to...

Tales of the Plymouth Blitz.

They may have bombed Argyle, but that was not their target nor the Ack-Ack site next door in Plymouth...

Strength In Togetherness

Dad had done his Fire Duty on the roofs, so did my father-in-Law who went deaf as a result of the noise...

A Boy in Swansea.

Apparently the Bull Fighters about two of them were having a mock dog fight over Swansea Bay and the one...

Fun and Games Tonight

As I had military experience I was quickly promoted to Senior Warden of Sector 59... My wife had by then...

MY WARTIME MEMORIES OF NORWICH

A German plane swept low over the street and went on to drop bombs on workers leaving Reckitt & Colman,...

THE PLYMOUTH BLITZ by Ken Roberts - part three

In the Cattedown area quite a few families had access to commercial vehicles such as coal lorries,...

The Blitz according to Jean Anderson.

There, Joyce,May, Lilian, Jack, baby David and I all piled on and went to sleep... At home we feasted on...

A schoolgirl's war

For example, the disabled, arthritic 88-year old who with a stirrup pump and buckets of water put out the...

My War (Part 2) The London Blitz

Starting in September with daylight bombing raids the Luftwaffe switched fairly soon to bombing London at...

A schoolgirl's war

For example, the disabled, arthritic 88-year old who with a stirrup pump and buckets of water put out the...

WARTIME RECOLLECTIONS IN COVENTRY

Coventry was full of factories producing phones, radios, motor cycles, aircraft, aircraft engines',...

Plymouth Blitz

Incendiaries that landed in open spaces were ignored, but on going into George Place I noticed a small...

brothers

They were handed over to the army at the nearest military prison -- the Tower of London at the same time as...

My experiences

A lady a few doors away had put out a piece of meat with poison on it as a dog had been...

Kay's Story: Night Duty in Birmingham

Kay's Story: Night Duty in Birmingham...

On the fringe of the Coventry Blitz

In that house we listened to Chamberlain's famous announcement, declaring war on Hitler but, within...

Bombs on Walkden

As for Walkden, one bomb dropped in a field and did little damage except for a few broken windows in houses...

my wartime years

At the time of the anti-personell bombs we found a tin which was full of "rollers batherd in oil"....

Memoirs of a Wartime Teenager.

Some other people named Hewitt from Wincolmlee who were bombed out in the blitz when Hamilton's Oil...

A Child鈥檚 War

I lived at 17 Somerset Place in Teignmouth with my parents, William and Edith Hooper, my eldest brother,...

A young boy's memories

Our house was situated approx 200yds from, what is now The Central Line and faced houses which backed onto...

A schoolgirl's War

For example, the disabled, arthritic 88-year old who with a stirrup pump and buckets of water put out the...