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My Earliest Memory

My very first memory around the age of eighteen months is of my parents panicking to get me out of the...

Ex London Evacuee.

I was evacueated from Meadow road Lambeth in London to Nacton with my parents to live with my...

A Young Boy in Greenock Blitz

I was born in John Wilson Street.in the East end of greenock in February 1938... After the war we returned...

The Aftermath - Broken Family Relationship

Dad was in the 8th Army in North Africa and Italy. Having discussed this with many others of my age group,...

War Time Memories: By a Seven Year Old

But the doctor said to me 'you will get better, but my only son has just been killed in the...

Bristol At War

I lived very near the county cricket ground and one night nine time bombs fell on the cricket pitch... We...

Entertaining the Troops!

I sang Christopher Robin, dressed in a pair of pale blue pyjamas, carrying a candle in a holder. In the...

A Late Night Burglar

I was a small child living in Durrington in Wiltshire during the War, in a tiny one up and one down...

My Church in the Blackout

I was an altar boy of 12 years old at St Albans church, at the top of Penny Street, during the blackout...

Evacuees in Wales: Hay On Wye, Mid Wales

The evacuees came from Lamberth in London....

Doodlebug Night

The oldest boy and the girl made their home with us. One night during the war the doodlebugs came over and...

Memories from Mansfield

I grew up in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and we had an old cellar in the bottom of the house. I recall the...

Evacuation: From Wimbledon to Barstaple and Boston

I stayed there a year and then the house was struck by a bomb and I was returned to London after which...

Blitz on Liverpool

My father drove all over Liverpool at night, with virtually no lights on his motorbike,delivering messages...

I Would Have Not Been Born

My mother Elsie Lester was booked by her father onto the evacuee ship City of Benares to sail from...

American Party

During the second world war I was in the Penkhull homes... We were all well fed in Penkhull homes but we...

A Early Morning Surprise

My father had been out all night on ARP duty and mother, my sister and I had slept in the basement because...

What War?

I was 11 years old when war began and as soon as it was declaredthe air-raid sirens were sounded... As a...

Evacuated to Lizard Town

These 3 girls happened to be walking the cliffs just as a ship's lifeboat came in towards the shore at...

IMAGES

Gas masks and kisses, Roped-up old cases; Going to Granny's, Granny in Cardiff. Geoff Gaskill I was...

Odd memories

When I was at Heinemann publishers in Lower Kingswood we had the Royal Engineers in who took over the...

Pig Bins

Most houses during the war in the Stoke-on-Trent area were terraces with entries running behind the houses...

Cheated Out of Sweets

Annie was 8 years old in Clogher, County Tyrone when a flat-bed truck passed with GI's at the bottom of...

No Escape from the Bombing

My father was the air raid warden and was killed in the bombing. In 1944 the Hemswell Airfield was bombed...

Evacuee in Wales: An Orphan in Rhyl

I was an orphan in a Rhyl home. The only explosion we heard was a stick of three bombs which just missed...

Air Raid in Leeds: The Dangers of Shrapnel

Early in the war while visiting friends in Kirkstall Leeds ; When an air raid started....