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My experiences as a schoolboy evacuee, a civilian, a matelot

Initially the weekly ration per person was Butter 4ozs, Sugar 12 ozs Ham 8ozs. This was soon to change,...

The start of war

When I began to attend school, I was one of two new girls, the other was Etta Crause, a German Jewish girl...

Scarborough in wartime: Part 1

Suddenly someone said to him "don't know what you're standing here for, your roof is on...

Early War Memories

After dinner, mum made sandwiches to take to the beach for our tea and we would picnic at the beach hut......

EVACUATION 1939

Education: Marske village school was very small , so it could not accommodate the incoming 30 or so...

"TOM'S WAR" (Part 2 - Evacuation)

We were lucky to escape so lightly because Stafford contained some important war industries; English...

Soldier, Father and friend - PART 1

I often wonder if he ever survived the bombing of Malta, George Cross Island. Immediately after arriving at...

A Boy's war

We had been conditioned by our own propaganda to believe that the Germans were a nasty crowd given to...

Love and War in Worcestershire Part1 Little Eden

Recollections of My Early Years - Part 2 Passing the Time

We had trips to, Bolton recreation park, Heddon on the Wall recreation park, the farm next to the Cox Green...

Love and War in Worcestershire Part 2 Dandelion Days

Memories of life during the Second World War

Father saved his precious petrol coupons until he had enough to buy petrol for the journey, and then drove...

A wartime childhood - recollections of John Payne - Part Three

On the way home all the buses left at more or less the same time and in addition to the three which...

A Wartime Childhood

To a small boy of 8, which I then was, the threat of war and its eventual outbreak was exciting.; the...

Betty Bennett Chepstow Memories

I spent all weekends at home in Hendre Isaf St. Mellons, for a couple of years, until I became involved...

World War II Recollections Chapter 2

In Albert Park a Barrage Balloon was set up manned by WAAFS, which became a great source of interest to the...

Memories of WW2

My Father Charles William Hankins, whose parents lived in Cambray Road Balham, South London, worked for the...

My Wartime Schooldays

Daringly, some friends and I took to hitch-hiking - then a new response to wartime travel difficulties...

Wartime Childhood, J.M Lee Part 1.

On Christmas morning Dad always took my sister and I out for a walk so that mum could be left to get...

Soldier, Father and Friend - Part 2

My father buried in a cemetery in Singapore, a brother and sister evacuated to north Devon, myself at in an...

Dads Army Part3 by glenpet

One evening Mum had gone to play Whist, Dad and I listened to the wireless; frequently being interrupted by...

My experience of the Evacuation

I was nine when the war broke out and my Mam and Dad told me that along with my brother Sydney, who...

GERMAN FAMILY IN THE FAR EAST PART 2

Then as the war progressed, the men were 'sold' to the British and transported to British India...

Perran at War. (PART 2)

The sudden appearance of the maroon blazers of the 'Oxford and Elson House School, from Leytonstone...

Playing with the rabbits Ch.3(Part 1)

Shortly after our arrival in Bristol we were joined by my Aunt Dorothy, wife of my mother's eldest...

A boy's eye view of WW2 Part 1

Then on Eagle Day 12th August, the Germans moved from attacking shipping in The English Channel to bombing...