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SCHOOLBOYS鈥� MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR II 鈥� PART EIGHT

Given to the boys of Wimbledon College on 11 November 1996. I slept each night in a brick air raid shelter...

War Time Memories.

But as luck turned out, David's father worked at E.M.I. as a toolmaker and was able to get the help of...

Some Childhood Memories of the Second World War

That evening we had to hurriedly return to Riverhead, Kent, as my father had instructions to report to his...

Berkshire Land Girl Part II

Mice and rats used to scurry from the ricks and we enjoyed the sport of killing them with our pitchforks...

SCHOOLBOYS鈥� MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR II 鈥� PART THREE

It was after the Shorncliffe P.T.I. course in 1943 that many of us went to the College harvest camp on...

Memories of the Second World War (part 2)

Bombs designed by the air bombardment group, which he was a member, lead to the production of the 10 ton...

Mum's Memoirs

When I was five years old my family鈥攆ather, mother, two sisters, me and my brother鈥攎oved to...

Evacuation to Canada I

The 鈥淒uchess of Atholl鈥� was a vast ship 鈥� a liner on the Atlantic run 鈥� ferrying...

Three Sisters from Sheffield

We stayed together as a family throughout the war, because married women with children were not...

Peter Thorp's childhood memories of the war

The milkman who delivered milk to my grandmother's house in South Croydon had a similarly trained...

A boy aged 13 to 18 during WW2. Part 1.

It was Sunday morning a year later and we were in St. Mary's Catholic Church, Falmouth when Father John...

WWII recollections growing up in Ipswich

Not long after the incidents above there was a policeman on stage in assembly: 鈥淚t has been reported...

A boy in Wartime Ipswich

Not long after the incidents above there was a policeman on stage in assembly: 鈥淚t has been reported...

Recollections of a War-Time Childhood

I was born in January,1937, and my sister, Valerie, was born thirteen months later.We lived in a district...

Librarian in the Land Army

I was to find out later that he was known as 'Spider'. "Yon's a jammy Scrib," he...

A boy's eye view of WW2 (part 4)

But with increasing demands for women's work effort to be directed to war work, school dinners became a...

Childhood in Manchester

Dad however, preferred to stay in the cocoon of his Yiddish speaking Manchester workshop but Mam had a...

Growing up in Gateshead - The War Years

We left church as usual about 10.15am one Sunday and made our way to the junction of Bensham Bank and...

Growing up as evacuee and working in the 大象传媒

However, the threat of invasion by the German Army was always with us - my mother kept very sharp carving...

Leaving London For Hever Castle and Other 'Adventures' (part One)

My father was working in the London Office of a retired Colonel who inherited three properties a six-storey...

A Wartime Childhood 1939-45: Part 2- No Comfort

Edgborough housed a contingent of Maoris from New Zealand, while Hill House and Gold Hill Manor were...

WW2 as seen through the eyes of a Greenock Schoolboy part 2

From Gourock we cycled back towards Greenock and along the Esplanade accompanied by our "friend"....

Amsterdam 1044 -Part 1

My hands and feet felt like blocks of ice when, after several hours, we finally arrived at Willy's...

A Wartime Childhood ( part 2 of 2 )

Aldershot was the base for the Canadian Army and the troops smoked a cigarette called Sweet Caporals on...

From the Blitz to the Cambridgeshire Fens 1940-1945

So, at the end of September, 1940, we were whisked away to Walpole Highway, a very undistinguished little...

Jean Haslam 1940

To handle the butter, one had to wet the pats, and one day I was engaged in this, when an inspector arrived...