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Brothers In Arms: part 2

Meanwhile, another brother, Bernard was one of those brave men in the Chindits, a special task force who...

The Germans at the end of the Garden

My Mum would move the washing round in the boiling water with a 'copper stick', pull it out, put it...

School Evacuation at Ambleside

It was not until the end of October 1940 that I was able to join the school at Ambleside where the girls...

Evacuation from and orphanage in Gravesend to Devon

Our evacuation from and orphanage in Gravesend to Devon

War Time Memories

As well as the liberator bombers,Thunderbolt fighters were stationed at Holton Airfield.I visited several...

A Teacher's Tale

Whilst Helston had an air raid siren outlying villages didn't so the routine was that a local worthy...

WARTIME MEMORIES OF A NUNEATON BOY

I remember the American GI's who had a camp at the Arbury Hall estate in Stockingford and I still...

Raising money for Spitfire

I remember going to London once or twice to a dancing studio in Kensington it was run by Miss Euphan...

MY FLYING BOMB

About 57 years later Only this year I was talking to George on the phone about our memories of the second...

My wartime experience

At the time of the anti-personnel bombs we found a large tin full of "oil and metal rollers". We...

My War, WRNS. Part 3 - HMS Marshal Soult

I often visited Stanley who by this time was stationed with the RAF near Bedford where he would book a bed...

My wartime experience

At the time of the anti-personnel bombs we found a large tin full of "oil and metal rollers". We...

World War Two experiences as a child

Eventually I was on the move again; I was put on a train to Manchester to another hospital, Booth Hall...

A Jersey Family Interned in Germany

Having to leave Jersey for Germany I was born in Jersey, and at the start of the war and the occupation,...

Junior Chemist in War Part 3

Beside the production plant, there were three filling plants on site; one for 25-pounder shells, one for...

A YOUNG LAD WITH MANY INTERESTS — 1945

The highlight for the week was to listen to Doris Arnold in `These you have loved'. Visits to the...

Childhood Days in Launceston

Dad was in a reserved occupation in 1939, working as a skilled assember in an iron foundry, owned by Frank...

After the war was Declared.

The blast from the bombs which exploded blew the side of our home down, the windows where we were...

Cuckfield's War

They kept the children supplied with candy, and once gave me an awful fright when they took Mike, our...

Never get into a jeep with an American

This is mainly due to the fact that wartime events were so different from my normal life as a young boy...

Kingscote Capers

I got a voluntary job at the YMCA headquarters in New Road Brighton, next to the Theatre Royal, where I was...

A Schoolgirl's War Effort In South Gloucestershire

At Chipping Sodbury Grammar School, girls in the 5th and 6th Forms were asked to help assemble gas masks in...

Memories by Betty Johnston

My mum was an air raid warden, and she gad to do extensive training i.e first aid, poisonis gas drills etc,...

"Good Morning, Daddy"

Only a few yards beyond the bottom of our garden there was an Air Raid Warden's Station from which...

Stories of a Land Girl

After one particular day out in the fields threshing, Flo got into her favourite seat, on the tractor,...