Stories categorised in 'Childhood and Evacuation'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Dalton is close to Barrow which had been bombed quite a lot at the beginning of the war... My mother came...
However when I was in elementary school the War had just started and our group of youngsters decided to...
My brother, who was eight years old at the time, was evacuated with all the other school children from...
At the same time we believed the Germans were to launch a bombing raid on Clydeside. All the Germans did...
The air raid bunker set up in our garden was cold and bare so my father tidied it up, filled it with...
Mum kept a photo of him on the dressing table and as I began to talk I learned to ask God every...
I witnessed newly brought-down German planes, ditched English planes and so on. Because my father always...
"I was seven years old when war was declared in 1939 and as the war progressed it was decided among the...
I was born in November 1939 in Rowlands Gill, County Durham, two months after the outbreak of World War...
On more than one occassion, during 1942 and 1943, some of my friends would proudly display one or two live...
I used to live in Freehold Street,Coventry, at the bottom end with my young owner... As Christmas was...
His name was Sapper Carter, David Arthur, Number 1 Section 672 Artisan and Works Company, Royal Engineer...
His name was Sapper Carter, David Arthur, Number 1 Section 672 Artisan and Works Company, Royal Engineer...
We were born in Cardiff our mother was English and our father was Japanese. On VJ day we were put in the...
I was a babe in arms at the time and my mother refused to accept a gas mask unless and until they...
I, together with fourteen other boys were at our desks, struggling with our School Certificate Exams.I was...
I wonder if the other local children who were also given a banana have similar memories. On the rare...
In 1940 when I was two years old, we were living in Married Quarters at RAF ST. Athen in South Wales....
During the winter of 1944—5, I was asleep in my cot in an upstairs bedroom of my grandparents'...
My mother thought that bombs looked like milk bottles because of the shape....
At that time it was against the law for a cinema to open for profit on a Sunday, so a well-known Glasgow...
At the age of 4 he was given his first banana... He ate the banana with the skin on!...
All small boys had a shrapnel collection, usually in a brown paper bag. The high temperatures experienced...
The farm lay on the flight path of some spitfire squadrons which would fly low over the farm from time to...
At 5 mins to nine ,there were 250/300 children round a corner waiting to see if the siren would go before...
One day while we were at my school, Coombe Road School, we suddenly heard the sound of aircraft during the...
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