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Nine Lives

My father and I were stood in the garden watching the enemy planes go over and they were bombing...

Evacuees from Guernsey

I registered the boys with two separate greengrocers to enable me to get two allocations of potatoes. When...

A Very Lucky Little Girl

This dolly used to disappear every Christmas and Birthday and appeared on the day which suited... I had an...

Onward Christian Soldiers

As a child during the War i lived in East London with my parents, George and Marie Wittamore... I attended...

My Grandma

Only one child, a girl... I am interested in the war as all of my grandparents were involved and this is...

Patrick Morton

Sent at once to a cottage in Gidden Morden, Hertfordshire. We were remote from danger; our headmaster...

Defenders of Portrush

Steven was only eleven years old in 1942 when his mother decided that he and his four brothers should move...

Young Girls Memory of D-Day

Entered on behalf Shirley Jeanne Bridger All this took place at Widley, 9/10 miles north Portsmouth. The...

Sports Sessions in Preston Park, Brighton

During the war we would go to Preston Park for sports sessions... As the planes flew away, the Canadian...

Village Life in the War

I was annoyed that I didn't get a Mickey Mouse gas mask like the younger children, but instead got a...

Childhood War Memories of London Colney [P.Lowry]

Childhood War Memories of London Colney. Near where we lived in London Colney there were a number of large...

Nits!

I can remember my mum saying that the boy had got nits!.. I now realise the boy would have been an evacuee...

One or Two Memories of the War

I had four sisters and my mam had us sitting in a line on the settee as my dad didn't think the...

A Wonderful Headmaster in Wiltshire, and a Brother Lost at Sea

We were going out of school at morning playtime and our Headmaster called my brother and I over and said...

Childhood memories - Part 2: East Grinstead

East Grinstead was our nearest town and was home to Archibald McIndoe's pioneering work on burns...

Evacuation from Folkestone to Wales

I was born on 20th June 1932 in The Mothers Hospital for Women at Clapton, after my birth I was sent to...

Father's Presents: Lead Soldiers and a Doll

I remember some bombing around Trentham and Tittensor, the land in between. I also remember making coffee...

A Southampton Schoolgirl on D-Day

They were replaced by a convoy of white soldiers, incuding Julius Ruske, a German who had become a...

My Big Adventure

At nine years old the serious fact that war was imminent had no reality other than my sister and I were...

Eugine's Reminisences

D-Day was exciting I went to a friends house in the Potteries, the radio was on saying that the troops had...

Just Passing Through

They would stay in our church hall in Hamil Road, Burslem for one night. The church needed people to spend...

Looking at Boots.

My Dad could never kill them though, he used to have to take them to the butchers. My dad worked for the...

No Fear!

I remember the sirens and the engine noise of the heavy aircraft and going to the Morrison shelter in the...

My Tricycle and I

Jill M and I went to the same high school on Streatham Hill... One day when I was off school because of...

Welsh village evacuees

One day Derek asked my mother for a piece of cake in his Kent accent which sounded to me quite terrible. I...

Posh Lady's Box

One day I went to get the shopping and at the same time a posh lady was there too... I asked the...