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Recollections of Childhood and Early Manhood 1921 — 1940 by Leslie Landells

My elder brother Lawrence was already an R.A.F. boy entrant at R.A.F. Halton. I travelled to Carlisle with...

My war

You took on extra jobs; dig up the college garden to grow potatoes, do night duty on the roof of the...

The war from the other side

As the war was coming to an end, in the Spring of l945 at the age of six, I was collecting firewood...

Life, Love, and Evies War.

All the boys who had been playing tennis with us that day were called up and we all went our very different...

Memories of my war years in Salisbury, Wiltshire

As we had the rabbits my brother and I used to go up the avenue in Devizes Road to collect the leaves...

Wartime Childhood 1940-1944

Souvenirs’, which were a ‘must ‘ for all schoolboys to collect, grew into enormous...

Mrs Boggs recalls Eglinton, Derry in wartime

The Church halls were taken over to house the soldiers and army girls who built the Airfield here at...

Ashbourne W.I. Sketch 3

Cast; Shopkeeper — Mrs Jones — Mrs Smith — Mrs Wood. It will be all around the village in...

childhood recollections of the war

To get away from the Bombing of Coventry, we went out to a farm in Warwickshire, for the summer in a...

2) Then a most momentous event occurred...

The windows had been blown in, the curtains hung bedraggledly on broken springs, plaster had fallen off...

The Twins move from the path of the bombers to the Cotswolds

After a while Letty, Uncle John and Ann moved across the road into Broadlands Villa where Mr and Mrs Pain...

My Highland adventures

The plane came down behind Detillens Lane in Oxted but although some of the crew landed in the fields...

The Blitz, Our Evacuation and Return

The older children attended St Anne's School on Vale Road and my younger sister went to the Emmanuel...

WW2 at Beyton

My father was in Africa with the 8th Army and my mother and I lived with my grandmother at Beyton about...

Norma's Wartime Memories

Mum and Dad both worked in the steelworks, so we lived in the Attercliffe district of Sheffield on Lumley...

Through the eyes of a child

Suddenly we heard a four-engined German bomber being chased from Henlow by two fighters. We were able to...

Michael Lloyd. WW2 memoirs of a sightless person

I little at a little town called Bromsgrove situated between Worcester and Birmingham, and it as not...

War comes to Neston

Ten Bob A Week

I was 12 years old when war broke out, living in Ruthven Road, Litherland, Liverpool and a pupil at...

Little Murial's Story

At 19 years of age I joined the Land Army and spent 7 very happy years with 60 others girls in Howden...

REG'S STORY

The Davy's had two dogs, Nipper a Jack Russell and Jill, a wire-haired terrier. Mr. Davy returned home...

Working in Kempston and Bedford before enlisting in the Navy D.E.M.S. - Part Three

Ivor Walter CHAPPELL about his time in the Royal Navy posted to D.E.M.S. gunner duties on board...

Evacuation, The Gangway Into The Unknown

Cargo ships still ran between the islands and the mainland, and flights were little affected other than by...

An evacuee's memories of life in wartime Bedford - Part Three - Life in Bedford and London. Celebrating VE Day in Bedford.

An evacuee's memories of wartime in Bedford Part Three — Life in Bedford and London. There was...

Reconciliation

On the 29th Jan 1945 the Nazi army head office told the civilian population to get out of the shooting line...

War Days at Dunraven Park

I lived at 73 Dunraven Park along with my four sisters, Theresa, Annie, Meta and Rosemary and then my...