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My Wartime Experiences

The lady I worked for was Mrs. Mason, mother of James Mason, one of our finest film stars. James’...

Polish lemonade

Mum and Dad had gone for a Sunday morning stroll leaving my brother and me alone in the house. At bedtime...

They came by night. Part 1

Mrs Evans, my companion, a white haired, very elderly widow, who'd been shocked also into awaked ness,...

Silent Night bridged the divide

We had some relatives in Truro, Nova Scotia and it turned out she'd actually taught my cousin, Estelle,...

Pearl's Wartime Childhood in Coventry

My mother was shopping in Coventry, and a German plane was swooping low and firing at people near Hertford...

Thornbury at war

At one stage the German bombers bombed Bristol night after night. Another day I was with my Mum blackberry...

The Rocket - a schoolboy's memory:

So, after all, there had been a German V2 rocket which had landed just short of Acle, near Great Yarmouth...

"MY EVACUATION FROM RAMSGATE TO STAFFORD & GNOSALL"

My brother Tom's story "TOM'S WAR" has been submitted in 3 parts. Part 1 - Before...

Living Through The Second World War

Firstly with my father in the army and being the eldest of four children I knew there was no possibility of...

My Memories of Life During the War Years

I lived with my parents, four brothers and five sisters in a large terraced house in Handsworth,...

U-boat menace

Now we had no choice but to return to Glasgow and the awful war, as there was no one to look after...

One Family In Wartime

Irene McGivern's War

At this time my family was living in North Kent but I was at a private boarding school for girls in London...

Evacuee to Cornwall

The First Sunday in September 1939 was so busy for us I remember my mum packing cases and dressing my baby...

A SCOUT'S WAR

The whole family volunteered for duty, Dad became an ARP Warden, Mum active in the WRVS and Comforts Fund,...

A doodlebug dives on Marler Road, Forest Hill

Two days later, the doodlebug flying bomb campaign began for real. Suddenly, the noise changed to a diving...

Reminiscences

I moved to Dorset a long time ago because my sister's husband had been stationed down here and stayed...

Some WW2 Memories of a Cardiff Schoolboy

Further memories I have are of the peculiar drone of the German aeroplanes — a seemingly uneven throb...

Memoirs of a schoolboy

Bombs were dropped beside West Monkseaton Railway Station, Wembley Ave., Hillfield, Brierdene, Chapel...

A Reminiscence of World War 2

Some years later, seeing the immense U.S. war cemeteries in Normandy, I could only think of those smiling...

Irene Porter's War

My father always bought two copies of the Burnley Express and it was my job to wrap them in brown paper and...

A School Boy in WW2

Sometimes my brother, Marshall, and I were kept home from school to go down the Yankie dump at Wheal...

Evacuation Was a Holiday

Witney market was different in those days, with pigs, sheep and chickens in the Market Square. Witney Feast...

FLADBURY: the story of a village during World War 2

Fladbury is a village in Worcestershire and at the outbreak of war and for its duration played a part in...

Somerset, London, Windermere

On one cloudy day I heard a plane overhead and looked up to see a German plane appear in a gap in...

A Good War

My parents decided that, although my father would have to return to London because his work was there, my...