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Memories of World War Two in Southall and Burton-on-Trent

This was Ascot Gardens Southall Middlesex where we were born.Our Dad slept in the house as there wasn't...

Evacuees versus Turnip Heads on the Severn Estuary

Akker, the leader of our gang was called a turnip head by a cheeky Cockney kid....

A wartime boyhood in Cranleigh

School life proceeded normally until the Infant School was destroyed and there were just not enough...

Wartime in Plymouth

My school was bombed which destroyed all the exam results so Mum had to go to the Council to find out I...

Family History Report

There was a man called Mr Walter Taylor who was 80 years old and he served in the D'Day landings......

Memories of a child born at the end of 1940

I was evacuated with my mother and little brother to Buckleberry in Berkshire for part of the war. I know...

Evacuation: From Kent to South Wales

"With a large brown label tied to our coats for identification purposes, we children all stood in our...

In India with the Indian Military Nursing Service

Through contact with Lady Wavell, she was able to leave the camp and enlist with the Indian Nursing...

Memories of Our Shop and the Rations

The land for the streets off Main Street at Wombwell was given as charity for 1 guinea. The streets were...

Outbreak of War and Travel to India

I had come home from India to go to school in England but due to the war it was decided that I...

Evacuee to South Wales

I was 5 years old in 1944 and was evacuated from Hanwell in South London to Penrecweiber in the Rhondda...

Evacuee at Colne: First Christmas 1939

A few weeks before Christmas I was taken to the markethall and stood looking at about 6 rows of dolls....

American Servicemen in Northern Ireland

But as the days wore on, being a child I completely forgot the war and was only aware of the shortages and...

From Evacuation To Incendiary

Unknown to me the Germans had dropped a load of incendiary bombs all down our street... The next day I...

"I Can Never Remember Going To Infant School."

We used to make seaboot stockings, the ones that go all the way to the thighs, scarves, gloves, balaclavas...

The Evacee

The Evacuee Who Arrived From Lancashire In 1940 Peter Tiernan. So I was taken to Liverpool and handed over...

Bikes

The Spitfire put its wing under the Doodlebug's wing and flipped it over, it dived to the ground and...

Dad Goes to War, 1939: Childhood Memories of Stourbridge

In late August 1939 my school friend and I were looking forward to our weeks holiday with my Mom and Dad at...

Me and Mister Hitler: Childhood Memories in North Yorkshire

A giant bonfire was lit on the village green, and it was this that symbolised the end of the war for me,...

I Became a Number

The men were interned separately, we only saw him once in a camp near a town in East Java. When death...

Evacuees and Home Guard in Keynsham

In September we children wandered down to the school hall to see the, mostly parentless, evacuees arrive...

Little Children with Big Labels

I was a little girl when the first bombs started falling and I remember we used to hide under the stairs,...

Skipping school to run errands for Yanks

There was an American soldiers camp near where I went to school in Pontllanfraith secondary school and out...

Rhyl during the war

The hotels on the promenade were taken over by the Ministry of Food and the Ministry of Works - quite a lot...

Sutton Stories

One flying bomb hit the Diary next door to the factory I was in – it landed in the loading area,...

Darton War Memories

Going to school between Darton and Barnsley — buses scarce, unreliable and overcrowded. Lighting was...