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Evacuated and Home Again

The colour drained from my mothers face as, although I was the youngest and would be 12 the next month, I...

1939 Evacuee

The lady took in 5 evacuees my brother and me and another 3 evacuees they were 2 boys and 1 girl. Life...

A Fond Fairwell

I understood later that the telegram contained news that her husband Syd my Father a Private 7656610,in the...

Narrow Escape-V1 in Bushey

In 1944 the Germans began using their terror weapons, flying bombs and rockets. Flying bombs, which the...

Warsaw story

Then we moved out of Warsaw, but to our surprise the Russians marched in... I interviewed them in Polish,...

Old Southgate

On a warm hot september day I was at the allotment with my dad when the air raid siren sounded. chaimberlin...

Happy Days

In 1940 I was evacuated from Essex to a small village in Oxfordshire called Long Hanborough, fortunately...

6 go to Tunstall: Evacuated from Portsmouth

We had come from Portsmouth where the factory behind the house had been bombed. Immediately afterwards...

D-Day Memories: Of a Child in Essex

I was living with my mother and her family in Colchester, Essex, which is, of course, a short hop from Kent...

Memories of the Bombing of the Grosvenor Hotel

I remember seeing the four bombs that hit the Grosvenor Hotel and the County Theatre in Midland Road. I...

The Yank ' Big Leo' by Bernard MC Cormack

The Yank: Big Leo’ By Bernard Mc Cormack Location: Derry, Northern Ireland. It had the famous white...

Kings School Rochester and Evacuation

Two of my earliest memories are coming last in the under 9s 150 yards race on that year's School...

Bethnal Road School Bombed

My brother my Mum and I lived upstairs in a terraced house and my Nan and Grandad lived downstairs, and...

Evacuation by Margaret Thorton

I didn't know where I was going as I was only 11, my brother was 10, my sister was 9 and my...

Image of Bromsgrove during WWII

We were registered with Marsh & Baxter Butcher, and mid week on a Wednesday I had to go and stand in a...

The Banjo: Childhood Memories in Staffordshire

There was this funny burned smell everywhere and in one of the houses, clearly visible, was a charred and...

A Daughter Remembers

I remember a lot prior to that day in June.My father's face with his wide grin and twinkling eyes as he...

The Encounter With the Brass Monkey

So granny and grandad in North Wales were lumbered with a daughter-in-law and two rowdy boys. Ten year-old...

MY FRIEND THE MOON

In the end corner of our road, there was a big garage where some Arab soldiers were billeted.Ali was one of...

Strafing a playing field, Torquay 1943/44

I was a student at the South Devon Technical College, Torquay from 1942 to 1946. We did games on Wednesday...

Childhood Memories of WW2 in Braintree

Getting into lorries taking sand from local pits at Silver End driven by Irish drivers who drove as fast...

Beaminster During the War

We weren't affected badly by the bombing in Beaminster... A German plane came down the other side of...

Falling through the Floor in Fulham

We would wage war on the kids from the next street, building our own trenches in the ruins of bombed-out...

War in Coventry 1941

I was with my mother and father; we were walking to the cinema along a road that passed the Armstrong...

Evacuee in Bedford

I arrived in bedford just as the war began, with my mother and two brothers, at bedford railway station we...

The Ups and Downs of an Evacuee

I was born in Paddington, West London and lived there till the Second World War when I was evacuated with...