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Anticipation of Evacuation II

My parents I remember, were very concerned about the war and they were watching the events in France with...

Air Raid Warnings

My mother remembers being told that if the air raid siren went off while she and her sister were on their...

Four Year Evacuee

I then came home and seen the bombing of Birmingham. Then twin brother and I was evacuated Coleville in...

A Five Year Old

The gunners living in a nissen hut and handing me my first orange. In darlington a vivid memory of my...

Certificate of Merit

The certificate was awarded to pupils of the school for their part in a book collection across the Totnes...

Evacuated from Guernsey

I was evacuated with my parents from Guernsey.We were put on a coalboat which was packed full of people...

Serving Snacks

Saturdays myself and several friends served snacks and tea to troops on short leave in Oxford Town...

First Banana-That Wasn't

Just at the end of the war the first bananas arrived in Aylesbury. My friend's mum had waited for hours...

Bananas (Or Mashed Parsnips)

She told us that it was banana and she put it in our sandwiches for school. As told to Pauline Shaw of...

On the beach in Egypt

This photograph was taken on the beach in Egypt on my 5th Birthday. My early years were the war years The...

Bananas

In 1944, as a 7year old at our local infants' school I was sent to colledt the registers from the other...

Growing Up

When war broke out I was at Ravensdale School till 1940,then when the syrens went in the night our mother...

winchelsea 1943

I was just a baby when a bomb was dropped on our house in winchelsea east sussex I have only recently been...

A Happy Evacuee

I lived in Saxmundham in Suffolk. I remember we took in evacuees....

Memories by Brian Ward

As a seven year old, I can remember the US servicemen at Wethersfield Air Base giving an annual party at...

Thoughts about WW2

My Grandad wasn't evacuated. Evacuees from Sunderland & Manchester, and some English servicemen,...

And Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Evacuation from Erith,Kent to Dymchurch near Dover near the location of the present Channel Tunnel. A...

Religon and Different Races

That's when our parents could get a bit of peace and quiet....

When my Grandad was Evacuated

My grandad was evacuated from Leeds to Little Ouseburn in North Yorkshire....

Childhood Memory of Sheltering from the Bombs

I started school and had a Mickey Mouse gas mask... Afer the war, there were street parties and dancing and...

A Childs War

I remember as a young boy, listening to German bombers following the river severn on their way to bomb...

My First Day at School

The one thing that I can recall quite vividly is being issued with a gas mask. It came in a cream coloured...

Memories from when I was 7

The USA servicemen at Wethersfield Airbase gave an annual party at Christmas for children who's fathers...

BEF Soldiers

I recall being in my garden in Kent, watching train after train packed with soldiers heading north. When I...

Domestic Science

In domestic science lessons with Miss Horniblow we were making very small Christmas cakes... When we came...

Living in Chester

John Jones lived in Liverpool in 1940, and was moved to Chester as a 8 year old. From is house in Chester...