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Family Recollections

My eldest brother Clayton reminded me of the different types of gas masks on hand for the family, he had an...

A Young Person's Memories

After a few days we began to go to the local school, we were not integrated with the local children, but...

The Council Had Ordered Hundreds and Hundreds of Wooden Boxes

After a few months with nothing happening, what they called the 鈥榩honey war鈥�, most East London...

War for a teenager

When the air raids became more frequent, on the siren going Mom would pick up the baby I would carry the...

Wartime Childhood

At Christmas, presents were a real problem: one year she bought loose wooden beads 鈥� old stock from...

Growing up at War

My brother volunteered for the airforce and we had air raids here because they bombed Coventry a lot. I...

Interview with Irene Greaves

So I phoned the person over at the Land Army, I think it was in Preston somewhere... I met my husband down...

Don't Forget Your Gas Mask

However all Hell broke loose on the 10th May with the invasion of Holland., Belgium, and France. The allied...

Don't Forget Your Gas Mask

However all Hell broke loose on the 10th May with the invasion of Holland., Belgium, and France. The allied...

War story

The Germans began a policy of closing off certain districts and Dutch men from these areas who were between...

Chicken Lickin' Good

There were however lighter moments and the one concerning the chicken has stayed firmly in my memory: One...

Evacuation to Hemington

While saying goodbye to each other at the end of the holiday, Nancy said to my parents that, should war be...

Williams War

There was a meeting place in the village, it was by the bridge over the Millburn, where the men of the...

Holocaust Survivor

In the Warsaw Ghetto the Germans allowed us 154 calories per human being whereas the German soldiers had an...

Evacuated to Devon

Aunty and Uncle were lovely people, and Mr. Watts - Elsie's father, was also nice, although a strict...

Pam Chatterton鈥檚 Story

After a few days we began to go to the local school, but we were not integrated with the local children,...

FLOWERS FROM THE EAST END

Rose and Lily were tucked into the warm double bed and Granny wished them goodnight... That afternoon my...

William Harold Shaw

During school holidays many of the boys would go to the Welsh Land Settlement near Wentwood, where they...

Random Memories

Then when the Liberator crashed into the back of the Electric Laundry I was walking down Whyke Lane with...

Wartime Treats as a Kid in Selly Oak

Every grown up seemed to have a part to play, those that weren't in the forces that is, was proudly...

HOSTING EVACUEES

The following day my Mother and some of the village 鈥渨orthies鈥� took the children to houses in...

Pellipar House and Dungiven 39-45

Hard to believe now.We were the Firts londonderry company and we had a 75 mm gun which a crew of us was...

My Wartime Experiences

At first, we had the 鈥榩honey鈥� war, everything was quiet, the bombings by the German aeroplanes...

Growing up in Turriff

The government decided that flax could be grown in the north east of Scotland so a factory was built in...

A Scout's War

Bamford received a group of young evacuees from Shoeburyness, and scouts attended their arrival at the...

Watching Allied Air Activity near Baldock, Herts.

My visits to Steeple Morden came to an emphatic end when a Flying Fortress from nearby Bassingbourn crashed...