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Harold George Cooper 1939 to 1947 Home Front to the Middle East.

My mother used to look after a small child John Stobart, they used to call him Johnny, he was friends with...

Bevin Boy At Littleton Colliery - My Father's Story

Having made smooth progress in the Cadets and making Sergeant, dad thought a good career in the army proper...

Sixty Years

Mam's sister, Josie, held Jean in her arms, and I sat on my aunt Vera's knee. Dinna let the bairns...

War child

In summer 1941 my father decided we should leave the London area so he drove my mother, sister and I down...

My Childhood Memories of WW2 (Part 2)

Mum and I did some shopping in Portswood where we bought some ‘Spam’ to make some sandwiches...

A Child's War, Part 4, by Alan Marshfield

I also kept some drawings of space-women that I'd done to illustrate a library copy of Edgar Rice...

Vivien’s Childhood in Wartime London.

Let me put the boys to bed for you while you look after the baby'" She did the ironing too and...

Rough Hewn and Tender Pride-Fishponds 1939-1940

Her words became particularly meaningful to me later, when one day my father came home from work and...

Growing up in Northfleet during the war

I lived near Gravesend and we lived a lot in the air raid shelter as they used to come over and bomb...

A Child in Wartime

My first memory of wartime was when my father dug up our small back garden, in order to install an Anderson...

Wartime Memories of a Teenage Schoolgirl

I don't know the circumstances I'm afraid but I am told the plane crashed into Cowpe Low, a hill...

My Life in Rural Scotland during the War

We learned that the town was to receive a large influx of children evacuated from Glasgow. Classes had to...

An evacuee's memories of life in wartime Bedford - Part One - The build up to war in Islington. Evacuation from Islington with the Owen School to Bedford.

From Islington our nearest station would be St.Pancras to Bedford or maybe King's Cross going somewhere...

Misplaced account

Across the way from the post office was the village hall where mum used to go to “whist...

Hitler and my Grandfather - Chapters 9-10

Going out of the hotel and round the corner I saw a slip road and looking down it, to my astonishment saw...

My War Work...Pharmaceutical supplies and Photography

Pharmaceutical supplies and Photography By Frank Copley....

THE UNCLE I NEVER KNEW

ALL THIS IN ONE DAY, AND WE REALLY DIDN`T NOTICE THE RAIN, HAIL AND SNOW.NOW IT WAS TIME TO SAY OUR GOODBYE...

Teenager Beryls War

My mother decided very early on in the war that father and I should have our midday meal in the canteen and...

A war story , Bombed out and evacuated.

During one air raid my grandfather was watching the spectacle outside the shelter as he often did.I still...

Childhood Memories of the Blitz and Evacuation.

They were stationed at the New Zealand Post Office in London, distributing mail between New Zealand...

Evacuation of Children - Part 2

I did worry in my young mind about mum and dad being in Plymouth during the air-raids, especially in the...

Wartime memories of an evacuated teacher Part One - From Islington to Bedford

And Mr. Hayes of course, he was the Chief Inspector and he would fight tooth and nail because there was...

MY TEENAGE YEARS IN RAWMARSH

Eventually it was quiet enough for us to continue our journey and we caught the train for Rotherham, but in...

My Memories of WW2 in Eastbourne

People in Eastbourne were asked to take the London refugees into their homes and my parents took in 5...

Childhood Memories from Victoria Road

Because we lived out of Beverley we couldn't always hear the air raid sirens if the wind was in the...

Alf Daines Wartime Boyhood Memories (Chpt III)

Harvest time at Poslingford Hall. At the beginning of harvest John Brown and Ernest Hickford would be using...