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A stray bomber

No sirens had gone so I didn't worry when, all at once, I noticed the Iron Cross on the underside of...

My Experience of Being an Evacuee from Chatham in Wales by Hazel Chadfield

In 1940 I was ten years old living in Chatham in Kent, when I was moved to Wales....

Bananas and Barrage Balloons

The walls were all scorched and the plants and nettles were all burnt black, but they were burnt not by the...

Home-Made Bomb and Other Recollections of the War

My grandmother got such a shock that she flung her arms around my father's neck and screamed 鈥淭he...

Landmine

I was seven when I was travelling on the train to Windygates in Fife as I was evacuated to my Aunts... On...

St Just: Evacuees from Walthamstow

I was evacuated with my older brother at the start of the war from Walthamstowto St Just-in Penwith which...

MACHINE-GUNNED ON A SCHOOL BUS

"I was an Ipswich School boy and one day in 1942 I was on my way in by bus when we reached...

EVACUATED TO WALES 1940 part two

When the headmaster found that the older boys were lying in wait for us when we left school, to bully and...

Being a Child in Lewes in WW2

I HAD READ A GOVERMENT PAMPHLET WHICH DESCRIBED THE SUFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE ALREADY RUN-OVER BY THE...

In Bed with Incendary Bombs: Childhood Memories in Cheshire

Before mother had time to take me down into the cellar two incendary bombs hit the house - one came through...

My First Memories

However , I was born in Sutton , Surrey and home was Worcester Park so we were in a vulnerable area and...

Evacuation to Keysoe in September 1939

We attended Keysoe School. Playing with the unexploded Incendiary Bombs deposited on the Football Field was...

My WW2 Childhood near Rochdale

One day whilst standing on a wall - viewing the world I counted over 100 enemy aircraft coming over the...

Colliery Village, County Durham

DIG FOR VICTORY- a Having a love for gardening even at 11 years of age I had my dad break up the...

Life as an evacuee

Prior to the start of the war we had lived in Toronto Road, Tilbury but the house was uninhabitable after...

This Ain't No Fit Night Out For Man Nor Beast......

We Britains were made of sterner stuff intoo much, unless, of course they were our special friends... After...

My War Memories: David in Co Antrim

My name is David Fleming from Ballymena, Co Antrim. He returned to Belfast to work in Harland and Wolffs...

Jean Preedy's War

I was eleven years old when the war started and was evacuated from Manchester to Oswaldtwistle. By the time...

Wartime Conception

Not knowing she was pregnant, Mum joined the Land Army. She requested "Care of Livestock" but was...

Bombs Away!

It could have been no more than a couple of hundred feet high and as I looked, momentarily frozen into...

Last Raid

We lived about a mile from the Royal Ordnance Factory and when the sirens went, my mother, worried about my...

Childhood Memories: In Bedfordshire and Essex

When my Mum and Dad were living in London in Brixton in a top floor flat two doors away from us a...

Childhood in Wartime Belfast

There was a P.O.W. camp in Orangefield Primary School and we used to look through the fence.The prisoners...

Sea Chest

Jim and his brother Tom who lived in Albion Street, Murton were sitting on the family sea chest in front of...

A War Baby from Coventry

I appantly spent the first five or six years of my life dodging the bombs which devastated Coventry by...

I Was Pulled From The Rubble

They say I was very close to grandma, she thought the world of me... My first recollection and I can...