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My Earliest Memories: A Child in Birkenhead

To visit my relatives we had to either walk, or go by bus, to the ferry at Woodside, and sail across the...

A Childhood in Nazi-Occupied Italy

Some prisoners were recaptured by the Germans and sent to Germany, but many joined the rapidly forming...

Growing Up in London 1939-45

The bombing of London started on Saturday September 7th when 967 German and Italian fighters and bombers...

A Scottish Child's View of WW2

At school we were immediately taught air raid drill, which meant that when the school bell was sounded, we all donned our gas masks and lay down on the floor under our desks...

Keep Smiling Through, Part One: A Child in Wandsworth, Digging for Victory, and First Bombs

Mum gave Dad a last minute message, to get Gran and my Uncle George to leave their home in Clapham and use...

Keep Smiling Through, Part Two: London Ablaze

Patrick鈥檚 Evacuation Story,

I cannot remember how long my brother was at Alltwen, it was several months, but he eventually came to live...

DOODLEBUG

Just past the 鈥淣ick Wood鈥� stood a small cottage next to the church in which Mary Armstrong, a...

Breckland Exodus-The Forced Evacuation of the Norfolk Battle Area 1942 -Part 1

At the stroke of a War Office pen three villages Stanford, Tottington and West Tofts to-gether with the...

Memories of the Lost Years in Oxfordshire (1939 - 1945)

I was born in 204 Grange Road E13 in the home of my maternal Grandma and Papa, on the 10th March 1934,...

A Portsmouth Child's Life in WW2

On leaving Bath, Daddy returned to Portsmouth to search for a home, and the rest of us waited in Wales....

Scenes by the River 1940: Childhood Memories of East London

Henry handed our money to Jemima, pleased not to be the subject of Tugger's wrath because they had so...

A Child's War: In Coventry

I had heard about Germans from my Teachers at my Council school in Coundon Road, when we children were...

Wartime Butcher's Boy- Folkestone

The sausages manufactured at 'Dick Hills' butcher shop and other butcher shops, due to shortages -...

The Atlantic Divide: Evacuated to America

My father, a member of the Economics Faculty of Cambridge University, had recently written a book entitled...

A Wartime Kid's Personal Story

When walking on Riddlesdown, between Purley and Sanderstead, Mum and I saw a lot of army vehicles parked in...

Aunt Mary's War

I can clearly recall Aunty Mary and grandma working together on washing-day, but maybe that memory is so...

A Westphalian Childhood

The boy knelt with his back to his aunt on the wooden bench beside the table, fascinated by the frost...

'Kiotske' (stand to attention), 'Kere' (bow) 'Naore' (stand up)

The Japanese did not speak Dutch and very few spoke English so conversations were mostly in Malay. We...

A Wartime Childhood: 'Normal' life in Countesthorpe, Leicestershire - and London

A Wartime Childhood: 'Normal' life in Countesthorpe, Leicestershire - and London. In the playground...

The Hospital: Scarlet Fever in Lancashire

I heard one nurse say to another "We don't need to bath her she's from the convent". The...

A Girl in Falconwood

A bowl of water and a blanket were kept in there, so we could hang a wet blanket over the door in...

A Surrey Childhood 1939 to 1945

The early years are hazy; memories of sitting on dad's lap to have a family photo taken and his army...

An Old Eastender's Boyhood Memories Part 2: Evacuation to Berkshire 1939

Roughly a month after Henry and I had arrived at the Hackers' household, I blackened my already...

Memoirs of Ivan Novak (Part 2)

Aunty Maria, Uncle Frank, Darinko, Lojzo and little Martin were in the house. We were chopping a tree down...

Memories of a Wartime Childhood, part 1

There was an unexploded bomb near the rear entrance to Ewell Court Park... Dad worked in the City of...