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Ammunition Train

There was an ammunition train down at Liverpool Docks and because of the heavy bombing they were worried it...

Twists of Fate at Kenley

I was a Boy Scout in Kenley during the War, and my father Edgar Delia was Scoutmaster, with my mother...

Cynthia's War, Part 2: Dunkirk Returners, and a Cheeky Evacuee

My Dad enrolled in the LDV later the Home Guard, and was out some nights guarding the railway bridge with...

Mickey Mouse

I was a child during the War, living in East London with my parents, George and Marie Wittamore.I can't...

Looking for Grandma's House

One day Len decided that he and I should visit Grandma who lived in Everton which was a tram ride away from...

A War Time Memory: Evacuated from London to Grange Oversands

In 1943, age 8yrs I lived in London with my mother and elder sister, the bombing was very bad and most...

Memories of a Boys' WW2

One time, whilst on the way to school, casually looking for shrapnel as we went,a friend and I spotted the...

Bombing in Malta

A torpedo dropped on our house as we were going into the shelter, the blast of the bomb blew us down the...

Smiles All Round

This way, new faces - same repartee - got any chocolate mister? - got any spare cap badges? and of course...

Jean, The Evacuee

I went to Aylesbury Grammar School and watched the Blitz on London from there... We celebrated VE and VJ...

Willy's search for Alwin Muntz

In response, I contacted Willy Birkemeyer a fellow pupil of my time in a Primary School, Germany 1934. The...

Childhood in Wartime Edinburgh

I remember my parents taking me to a concert in Leith town hall. At about the same time the girl who was...

Marion Collett

The farm was in Devon and I can still remember the name of the farmer and the name of the farm. It...

Evacuee Nightmare

Mr. Lewis would come into the cellar and abuse me/expose himself. We ran away, but only after I went into...

Gas Masks

The windows in the classroom were small pane with sticky paper strips all over them, in case they broke if...

Poem: Evacuated to Norfolk

I was evacuated from the East End of London in September 1939 to the Norfolk village of Beachamwell. I was...

Leamington schooldays

I remember the bombs dropping onto Coventry, thinking that they sounded like fireworks... The billeting...

Wartime in Compton Dundon, Somerset

I remember the day all the children attending the Infant School at Compton Dundon had a day off because 2...

childhood memories

My childhood memories are of the blackout and seeing my elderly aunt who had come to visit in daylight but...

A Memory Of D-Day

I was 10 years’ old, my father was in Italy with the army, and I lived with my mother, two brothers...

Evacuee to Caernarvon

My parents came from Edge Hill, while my Gran lived in Caernarvon, so we went to live near Caernarvon...

Doodlebug

Right above the town, I watched an allied fighter aircraft attacking a "Doodlebug". He emptied his...

My Lost Uncle

When my father joined the navy to fight in the war,my mother and I went to Penrith in Cumberland to live...

Evacuees: Guernsey to Cheshire

Rita's parents had moved to Guernsey and they and her elder brother were taken to Germany as slave...

Life down the Shelters: In Hayes, Middlesex

My parents and I lived in Hayes Middlesex, which had a few factories, which seemed to attract the German...

Baby in the War: Memories of Heywood, Lancashire

My first memories is as a toddler walking from my Uncle's farm, which was in Birch, to Heywood during...