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Fred Wright's War

I was born in Malaya in May 1935, and the outbreak of war in 1939 found me in India, at Peshawar on...

Schoolboy wartime memories of Chalton, Bedfordshire Part Three - Family members in the Forces. Decoy airfield for Tempsford airfield. Working at RAF Cardington. VE Day celebrations.

The purpose of that was that, say for instance that Tempsford was operating that night and the German...

Sharing Memories Part Three: group session at Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre

Here is a menu of a dinner we had Christmas 1945, roast turkey, roast pork, stuffing, roast potatoes,...

stories of land army experiences 1941 - 44.

The local farmers were definitely not prepared, to accept girls but I heard that Shipley Council had...

Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String

I learned in later years that the church wasn't bombed, but one of the large balloon barrages that had...

Memories of my Grandparents by Anna Mackay

Grandpa had an MG car and all cars had to have special covers with a slit in them fitted over the...

My War

It droned on and on, "By Eleven O'Clock this morning no such undertaking has been received and this...

Life Goes on - Part 1

Wim and Willy had taught me an English love song 鈥淚 love you, yes I do鈥�,and also 鈥淕od...

Returning & Rebuilding

To my wife and young daughter it was not to be for another seven months, it was October 15th 1945 before we...

My story as an Evacuee

My brother Percy said look there's a plane with its tail alight my first sight of a flying bomb. The...

WORLD WAR II 鈥� My story

My name at the time, before I was married, was Rita Rousell and 1939 found me living with my mother and two...

Memories of growing up in Swindon and Bristol

We moved into Swindon when it was time for us to go to school, because Nan didn't drive, and living out...

Machine Gunned in Croydon

Nanna duly made some tea which the ice-cream man gratefully drank... In due course my Nanna received a very...

My Family's Life in Dunstable

I also remember all sorts of war stuff about the house, including; tin helmets, gas masks, spotters...

Further memories of Evacuation to Abercarn, Wales

Abercarn is set in a valley, a sort of 鈥楾鈥� shaped valley surrounded by mountains, Mt Rhyswg to...

A Child's View of the War form an Essex Village

Every summer my parents, who lived in a small village about 13 miles North East of Aldgate Pump in Essex,...

perdiswel

I was a schoolboy living in Penbury Street in Worcester attending St Stephens Junior School during the war...

Evacuation to the Country - Part ONE

Part One I had been born in 1935 in Elm Park, a suburb of Hornchurch, which being the site of an important...

EVACUEE -WORLD WAR II (Part 2)

Us children witnessed many events during the war, we collected shrapnel, bits of cloth from parachutes,...

World War 2 Memories

I was a young schoolboy in London when the 2nd World War broke out, and was immediately evacuated by my...

Ringshall to Ipswich and back... part 1

Mrs Williams had heard that Ipswich wasn't being bombed so she decided to send us home. My mum...

MEMORIES OF MY WARTIME EXPERIENCES

I can remember being told that we were better off than some people, because during the war years when...

The First Day of the War

After a while my mother decided that she and I would return to London and we went to Swansea Station to buy...

Evacuation to Marchants Hill Camp School

Their major shift in policy began with the concentrated bombing of the London Docks, which started in the...

Childhood Reminiscences of WW2 in Bath

We lived in Pultney Gardens in Bath and at the beginning of the war a billeting officer called and told my...

A TIME FOR STEELE

So when the Army requisitioned the Ravenhall Hotel, my father and 鈥榰ncle鈥�, who worked together,...