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An Essex boy's Memories of Wartime by Len Clark

I was 12 years old and living in a village near Chelmsford, in a bungalow that Dad rented, with my Mum and...

Cubs and Scouts at War

My first Jamboree 鈥� or rather Senioree, for by then I was 16 and a Senior Scout and the war had ended...

Brian Limbrick鈥檚 Wartime Childhood 1938 to 1941

We all thought the Germans might bomb London without warning and were relieved to get to Kings Cross and...

War Years Remembered Part 2

The names on the news that stand out most clearly from the early part of the war are, I guess, Graf Spee,...

From Schoolboy to Soldier

I painted the back mudguard of my bicycle white and fitted a hood over my cycle lamp so that any marauding...

From Schooboy to soldier

I painted the back mudguard of my bicycle white and fitted a hood over my cycle lamp so that any marauding...

My Childhood Memories

One day, probably in the summer of 1940 when the Battle of Britain was at its height, there was great...

Life in Hamburg during WW2 - Chapter 1

Hamburg, with one of the largest ports in Europe, and being next to Berlin the biggest industrial town in...

Memories of WW2 on the South Coast as experienced by a young man

The German aircraft would come in low over the sea , couldn't be detected on the Radar , drop some...

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF WAR SEPTEMBER3RD, 1939-JUNE7TH, 1945

A battery of 3.7 inch anti-aircraft guns, search lights and a barrage balloon were installed near the Sheen...

Lights Out in London 1943

I see in my diary on 15 December 1943 that I went with a school friend to the Cambridge Theatre to see...

A wartime childhood - recollections of John Payne - Part Two

After a while, probably in late 1940 Dad got a job with a rubber company in Huntingdon and Mum and Dad...

Memories of a War Baby - Part Three

One Saturday morning we had a nasty shock whilst Arthur and I were waiting for the only bus. Arthur and I...

Messed about by Hitler

One day a teacher said, 鈥淎lan go into that other room and do that paper that is on the desk鈥�...

South Down Tales

'Big' and 'Little' Ted My Aunt Doll and Uncle 'Big' Ted had a bungalow, a downland...

John Jory Evacuee

Second Evacuation By Sept 1940 the Blitz was intense so Mum and I went to Auntie Mil's and Uncle George...

Buxton in Wartime - Memories of a Wartime Baby (part 2)

First school days for children living in the central areas of Buxton, were spent at Hardwick Square Infants...

my memories of wartime years (ch.1)

The teachers were mainly those who had been evacuated with us, making it easier for us to settle into the...

Childhood Memories of World War2

The night the Germans dropped a bomb at Balby, supposedly trying to hit the railway lines, there was such a...

Bevin's Babes

MARLENE became a 鈥淭ILLER GIRL鈥� - OLLIE trained at the 鈥楻OYAL BALLET SCHOOL鈥� and...

A wartime childhood - recollections of John Payne - Part One

Great Gidding For our summer holidays in 1939, Dick and I went to Auntie Gladys and Uncle Bert at Chapel...

PRAYER BEFORE BATTLE, LITTLE OLD VILAGE, CHRISTMAS HOMAGE, DUTY CALL, RETREAT FROM MOSCOW, SIMILIE, PHILOSOPHY, TOMMY ATKINS, TOBRUK (to G.P.)

I mean to do my duty, that ever we be free, From Nazi domination: I help for Victory John William Mowbray...

PRAYER BEFORE BATTLE, LITTLE OLD VILAGE, CHRISTMAS HOMAGE, DUTY CALL, RETREAT FROM MOSCOW, SIMILIE, PHILOSOPHY, TOMMY ATKINS, TOBRUK (to G.P.)

I mean to do my duty, that ever we be free, From Nazi domination: I help for Victory John William Mowbray...

Wartime Evacuee

I was discharged in October and a few days later Mum and Dad arrived with my young sister, Betty, who was...

Evacuation from Kingstanding, Birmingham to Derbyshire

By lunchtime my parents, Aunt Daisy and Uncle Jim were in Ironville in a 鈥榖orrowed鈥� car, Miss...

After the War

Dad must have been swearing because over many weekends they'd been at it so to speak, I'd have to...