Two days before I was to travel north to board the ship, the "City of Benares" my mother removed me...
My wartime memories are of my father in the airforce stationed locally at Scampton, Dunholme, Coddington. I...
Her local sweet shop was Wilsons on the Newtownards Road in Belfast. On Friday night she went down to...
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My worst memories about the war was the the Sunday night blitz, when my school was bombed, and my mother...
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I was taken into Peterborough General Hospital where I was operated on by a Mr Noel Smith. Apparantly...
My introduction to the Police force when the local Bobby called to tell us we had an un-exploded bomb in...
I believe he married Bebe and Ben Lyon's daughter Barbara and beame a B.B.C. producer. I remember the...
While living at Kings Dyke my dear Aunt Agnes lived at home and she had this habit of forever sharpening...
Both my grandma and grandad were evacuated. Grandma was 5 and grandad was 6....
I was in the Girls Training Corp as a Sergeant, wearing navy skirts, white blouses and a navy forage cap....
A family were introduced to my Classmates and me as Evacuees from London and we were asked to look after...
Living in Brockhurst Rd Castle Bromwich we had P.O.W. camp at the end of the road on the site of Castle...
She'd have a list of people who had volunteered to take evacuees, but there was also some billeting:...
I remember Soho Road being bombed and as a child collecting shrapnel and playing on the bomb sites. Bolton...
My father worked as a farm labourer a reserved occupation, there was a prisoner of war camp near the...
Back in London I remember playing in the bomb rubble watching the V1s falling from the sky: "It's...
Everyone was supposed to join a Youth organization if not already a member, such as Scouts, Guides, Red...
The time in the hight of the Battle for the skies over England, I was attending Lady Margaret Road junior...
His family was allowed 2 eggs a month, and hardly any meat, butter or sugar... When conscription began, his...
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