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A Short Account of Life in Dover

I lived near Dover, and was evacuated to Wales in 1939, when I was 13... Coming up to D-Day, tanks and...

The Country - As Told by Greta Smyth

My brothers and Father would stay at home, until one time when the bombs were dropped and they landed near...

The Blitz: Under the Stairs, As Told by Margaret Harrison

My Mum would make us go into our cupboard under the stairs....

WW2 Memories [F.Bungay]

I was born in 1936 and was a child during World War Two. Me and my sister hid under the table eating...

Toys from POW

German and Italian prisoner of war were used to supplement the farm labour. One German POW carved planes...

Childhood Memories of the War in Farndon

Margaret Norman has lived in Farndon all her life. When the evacuees arrived in Farndon from Liverpool....

Daylight Raid

As a small boy of eight years walking to school, I saw a German bomber... It turned out to be a stray...

Bonfire at the Shardruck

They were all very merry and as I recall they seemed to be running under the bonfire....

Memories of evacuation

I was evacuated from Manchester to Darwen in Lancashire... My father considered that to be sent to Darwen...

Evacuation

I was evacuated from London to Hull, leaving my mother and policeman father in London. My wife's...

Ayton Memories 2

During the war I lived in Edenthorpe near Doncaster and from 1940 — 45 I attended Thorne Grammar...

D-Day Memory, East Barnet, Herts

I woke up on a grey, drizzly morning and was just getting out of bed when my father -- who had already...

Can we have an evacuee Mum?

Can we have an evacuee Mum. We got a London boy called Alfred Parrish and my gran had his sister Irene....

My Second Hand Doll

I was born at West Monkton and I was six years old when war broke out and my next Christmas present was...

Five Year Old's Memories

If the sirens went off while we were at school we were sent into the air-raid shelter where we stayed until...

Skylarks in Cornwall

A group of evacuees from London arrived, unannounced, at Bodmin station... Suddenly, one of the children...

How The War Affected My Grandad: In Horsham

My Grandad's dad was a member of the home gaurd....

The Day War Broke Out Lilian's Story

I WAS IN CHURCH IN DEAL KENT WHEN WAR WAS ANNOUNCED BY THE VICAR... HALF AN HOUR LATER, ABOUT 11.30 THE...

Living with Strangers

I was evacuated to Higworth, near Swindon. we were taken to a hall and put on a stage where people picked...

From Mitcham to Oxfordshire

I lived in Mitcham, in Surrey, but was bombed out and evacuated to West Hanney near Wantage....

First Communion

The day that North Strand was bombed I was to take my 1st Holy Communion and this man came along and asked...

Doodlebugs in Northampton

I was evacuted to my Aunt in Northampton when just six years old... I tried to tell my aunt it was a...

through the eyes of a child

through the eyes of a child...

POWs Working on the Farm

POW working on the Land I remember one man gave me a Model Tractor and Trailer he had made from wood, but...

Pat's story - 1943

He was a fireman and one weekend he was stationed on fire watch at the White-House in Minster on the Isle...

A Child's War

I don't remember any bombs, apart from the bomb sites that were everywhere in London. When my Mum said...