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A Small Boy at War

At the beginning of WW2 I was five years, fifteen days, & seven hours old. . I lived at Darley Dale in...

Growing up in the second world war: In Brentwood

I was very excited when I opened my pillow case Christmas morning because it contained a wooden railway...

A Bermondsey Boys War. Part 3- The London Blitz.

Mum and Dad thought we'd get a respite as so far, they'd escaped being bombed on that side of...

A Child's War -Part 18

For all of us from the 鈥淣ankin鈥� and from the camp in Fukushima it was also a time to thank the...

The Diary of Two Nobodies - Part One

My sister Jean was only five years old when the RAF fought the great aerial dog-fights over London which...

Some Memories of Schooldays in Swansea during WW2

I was fortunate enough to pass the Scholarship, which I sat in about June, 1939 and I was then able to...

Wartime Childhood in a Northumberland Village

During the war there was understandably a blackout and as there was an army camp in the village, sentries...

The Depression and World War Two: Part 4: Childhood Memories

Generally cider apples are very bitter so Gandy looked for the 鈥楽weet Morgans鈥� and declared,...

Recollections of the Second World War Part 3

Now they had occupied France and the Low Countries, the Germans were much closer to Britain so could reach...

A Child's War -Part 8

An unusual and true story of a young boy who with his mother became a prisoner of both the Germans and the...

Evacuation

Norman Horlock and I went into one house and next door a boy called Peter Tomkins was going to be billeted...

Personal Stories from Our Family Book,Owen Neal.

Kenneth's first voyage in 1940 was on the Mary Kingsley, an old ship, and because it had been heavily...

Keith Underwood's Memories -Part 2

I would have had to pass Beachley Post Office, which was then at the side of the Three Salmons and run by...

A Child's War -Part 15

It was an exciting start to the excitement and strangeness of peace to see at such close quarters at just...

The Depression and World War Two: Part 2: Childhood Memories

Sagger called him his 鈥楧ancing Doll鈥� the reason being, when Mervyn was called to the front of...

An Evacuee Unwelcomed in Lytham St Annes

With no obvious plan stops were made at random houses, and the householders asked if they were willing to...

A Child's War -Part 2

The cargo well decks and hatches were permanently awash with green water sliding over them, and even the...

Dorothy Taylor-How I saw the Second World War part 1

I remember that Mam came to the classroom door to say 鈥榞oodbye鈥� and my seven year old brother,...

Memories of a Wartime Childhood in Derbyshire and Manchester

I gained one of the highest scores of all the children taking the Manchester 11+ and was awarded the...

Omagh during the War: A Childhood Memoir

He had been in the German army - he might even have been an officer - and one day, one of his...

Recollections of the Second World War

Over the years of our childhood attendance at cinemas my friends and I sat transfixed at the newsreels as...

A Child's War -Part 11

Each parcel contained things such as Emergency K Rations, tins of spam, Klim dried milk, chocolate,...

War-Time Existence

Another famous person who was a personal friend of Mrs Hichens was Joyce Grenfell who visited North Aston...

Wartime Memories Part 1

I lived with my Mummy and Daddy in a first floor flat over a tailor's shop next door to what is now...

A Child's War -Part 5

The strangest twist of this story which at the time as a young boy I found completely incongruous, was that...

Dorothy Collis's Story Part 2

Even ships carrying children, who were being evacuated to Commonwealth countries such as Canada, Australia,...