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Jottings from memory

In the spring of 1944 we were back in London and I sat my 11-plus examination in the school hall - all...

My Childhood During WW2

When the bombing started, it was best to leave a front window or door and a back window or door open, so...

Wartime memories of a 6 陆 year old boy

My next vivid memory is of standing outside the 鈥渁ir-raid鈥� shelter we had at the bottom of the...

World War Two Memoires - part 1 - Being Evacuated

In may 1940, as the evacuation from Dunkirk beaches became imminent, rumours spread around the town that...

MEMORIES OF THE WAR AND THE PLYMOUTH BLITZ

So we went from a twenty-four roomed house with stables and a large rose garden to a two-roomed cottage at...

My Service in the Land Army

In July, 1944 I reported to the Land Army Headquarters in Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury which was run by Lady...

Clapham to Kidwelly and back

When the 1st World War started in 1939 I was evacuated with the rest of my school from Clapham in South...

Teenage and Army Memories of war years 1939-1945.by John Beal.

Teenage and Army Memories of war years 1939-1945.by John Beal. During the years prior my call up for...

Memorable Events as Douglas Ambrose grew up during the War

Although my father stayed in London, my mother and I went off to Shrewsbury again but this time my mother...

War time experiences as an evacuee (aged 6 years)

I have seen a photograph in the Liverpool Echo showing a column of children walking down Wavertree Road......

David's War

On a Sunday, we would go to visit Mrs Brown's sister in Plymouth and I saw for myself the damage that...

The war to end all wars

Fred became Chief Signals Inspector for LNER NE Region. They both joined the East Riding Yeomanry who...

Schoolboy farmers

It was probably in August 1942 that I joined the ranks of those helping farmers John Eager and John Foster...

Boscombe Bournemouth and Mercias memories part 1

When Joan came home for leave she went dancing with Peggy at the pavilion Ballroom, in Bournemouth Gardens....

My Life in Epsom in WW2

The main Southern Railway line ran almost at the bottom of my grandfathers garden and at night a steam...

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Swansea & Life in World War Two

I hold no bitterness in my heart, but I have such memories of wonderful parents and a very dear sister, and...

My War

We would hear German planes going over and explosions in the distance, one night after the air-raid siren...

'Its Only Fireworks'

Overhead there was loud banging from the anti aircraft gun, which was situated on the Berry, the highest...

My Life- The Story of a German Jew-Part One

I had quite a decent beginning there, but towards the autumn of 1933 the Nazi Propaganda took hold of the...

Wartime Memories

So living at Chilworth and attending school at what is now Barton Peveril I travelled by bus into...

Ken Burton's War Years in Pirton.

We lived in the village of Pirton, near Hitchin, Hertfordshire and at eleven in the morning I was in the...

From The Beginning 1940

This has always haunted me and always will I suppose, I am the eldest of four Sister's and two...

Deported from Guernsey to Germany(Biberach)

This is the story of the journey to Biberach as told by David Dilwyn Williams, a Welshman living on...

Black Saturday, air raids and flying bombs, with Gladys in the bomb shelter

We were watching from the window, and this of course is when they bombed the docks, the first bombing of...

The German Pilot went to Bedales School!

It was pleasant and warm in the late afternoon - everything seemed to have gone quiet in the air - until...

Life in the wartime WAAF - II Part 2

However the 鈥榊anks鈥� finally took over and we were moved again, this time to home territory,...