Stories categorised in 'Childhood and Evacuation'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Our group was divided here, sixteen were ordered to remain at a bombed station, to be collected, the other...
Introductory note This is the first part of a personal memoir of my experiences, discoveries and beliefs...
The place was crowded and many of the people who were in poor physical and mental condition had come from...
Evacuation: South East England to South Wales 1939 - 1942 On the morning of Sunday 3 September 1939, I was...
Cousin Edna had six children between eight and eighteen months with her and her widowed mother was also...
A personal memoir of my experiences, discoveries and beliefs regarding the life, RAF career and death of my...
The sinking of ships became a frequent occurrence, and my Mother got a telegram to say that one of my...
It was known as the being the largest shipbuilding town in the world at that time, for it had seven...
We eventually got the call to get ready for bed, cleared up and did just that, after hanging up our prize...
Uncle and Aunty would arrive for the evening service with the preacher if they had been entertaining him or...
We had open coal fires in those days and in the winter evenings we would sit around the hearth and Mum...
My parents were at the time of the arrival of Harold and I living in Northern France and by the laws of...
So it was in this small country village, on the outskirts of Wales that I spent most of my childhood years...
The first house I lived in was in Princes Road, Teddington, but I lived throughout the war in a railway...
Sal, Vin and Richard had no mum... Granddad, Vin, Sal, George, Terry and I, and mum all went to the house....
I was in bed; my leg was in plaster and suspended about eighteen inches above the bed, the plaster was from...
Various ramshackle buildings were constructed with my reluctant help, to which over a period of time,...
Those pilotless V1 flying bombs, Buzzbombs, or Doodlebugs as they were known to us, were terror weapons...
Most of the traffic was for the army; lorries big and small as well as Bren gun carriers and proper big...
Despatch rider Sgt Harold Whitehead was an experienced amateur cine film maker and member of the Bradford...
This resulted in Plymouth being a big target for German bombers, and a place where a young boy like me...
There was a rumour that British bombs captured by the Germans in the retreat from the continent were being...
My friend and I both worked for the insurance side of the business when I was not on audit and we girls...
Returning to England from all but the earliest months of the war in Ireland, my Mother and I went to live...
On one occasion the body of a German airman was found without a parachute in the garden of a house in the...
However it so happened that we could see what was obviously an allied — and at that juncture of the...
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