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Family Memories

I had one brother who was a regular, one who was a PoW in Japan, one in the Desert Rats, one in...

A Boy鈥檚 Memories

I was eleven years old in 1939 and I went to Wymondham Secondary Modern School. The school was opened in...

June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2 (the Blackout)

THE BLACK-OUT To get to my paternal grandparents鈥� house we had to travel by bus and when we would...

Memories of Evacuation

When the time came for the evacuations, my uncle took my grandmother, my sister and I to Newton Abbot,...

War Memories of a 2-8 Year Old Child

When my mother got fed up with us sleeping in the shelter night after night, whe made up a bed under the...

Evacuees

I lived in Liverpool, when on September 3rd 1939, I heard over the 大象传媒 to keep children away from towns. My...

One Of My Memories: Field Marshall Montgomery

My sister and I used to go-with lots of other children-to the Odeon Cinema on a Saturday morning......

V1 Flying Bomb: Sholing, Southampton

THIS STORY IS ABOUT ONE OF THE FIRST V-1 FLYING BOMBS WHICH HIT THE SHOLING... THE BOMB FELL IN....

A Sea of Cabbages

That was the last time we played in the park until the war's end, as there was a grumpy old man...

Evacuation by Mary Stenson

First we were taken to Southport for one day and the second was to Brecenshire, this was to prepare us for...

Visit to the Pictures that got us into Big Trouble

My brother Bob and I, only about 12 and 14 years of age at the time, went to see the later Abbot...

Nightmare Experience

Janet Batson's recurrent nightmare. I was born in Kirby Muxloe, Leicester, in July 1943 and therefore...

A Child in Whitstable

During the Battle of Britain we had a front line view of a lot of the dogfights between Fighter Command and...

Memories of Stoke Works

The Cadbury boats came up the cut with crumb made at Blackpole on their way to Bournville... At night we...

Moonlit Nights

The earliest memory I have is of a moonlit night with the stars twinkling in the sky... My dad worked in...

Too Close - Childhood Memory

We lived in a big house in the country south of London, and a long way from even a village. Whilst only...

Memories of war: In Stoke-on-Trent

My father was in the army and he was a motorbike messenger between the lines. Grandad had a Fish and chip...

Evacuees to a Staffordshire Village

One day we were told that several childred would be joining us in the village, these were evacuees from...

Our Total Army 0ver 60 years ago !!

Stories of whistling bombs, living by all those factories, land mines, Heinkels and Dorniers, Ack Ack...

War in Jamaica

I was born in Jamaica in 1934. Some men volunteered for the British Army and Air Force, because of lack of...

"EVACUEES COME TO ASTLEY ABBOTTS"

When evacuees came to Astley Abbotts our school population went from 50 to 150....

Where has the gate gone?

One day there was no garden gate to stand on, because it was an 鈥淚ron鈥� gate, it had been...

School Dinner Diary

July 20th Had 陆 greenish tomato, new spuds, spam and a date pud and custard. Oct 9th Had fish cakes,...

A Child's War in St Annes on Sea

Only when I visited my Grandparents in Manchester, I well remember the 1940 bombing and seeing Piccadilly...

When My Dad Came Home

I was born 1/9/38The war started3/9/39.So i was only a baby when my dad joined up.He didnt need to.Because...

"Just shooting down town mum"

It was firing its machine guns, I was so shocked I just flung myself into the hedge on my side of the...