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A Wartime Childhood in Ashtead

Two of Derek's older siblings, a sister in the ATS and a brother in the RAF, turned up on leave from...

Evacuation

Mostly it was in groups of two's, three's and four children per household and I along with my older...

Evacuation to Cornwall by Tony Fletcher

I was evacuated in 1941 to Marazion in Cornwall, the school was Devonport High, and was generally in...

World War II Evacuation from Liverpool

We arrived by train at Ormskirk and were taken to a school to be allocated a place to stay. i was taken...

A Londoner's Wartime Story

Dad set a few bricks in the remains of the fireplace and Mum set some candles under a saucepan full of...

Wartime Lessons in Saltburn-by-the-Sea

My first memory as a five year old as Great Britain declared war in September 1939 was with my brothers and...

Marie's war time memories

My grandparents, Sarah and Richard Gurrey, had to leave their bungalow in Rochford, Essex because it was in...

My family's war.

After a while Dad persuaded Mum to return home and she asked Mrs.Hughes, who already had Edward and Peter...

Brian Cooper's War Recollections

During the Battle of Britain, Spitfires and Hurricane bombers were sent off to Germany on missions to cut...

The Richardson sisters — their evacuation to the Tills in Worthing

Our names are Pauline and Betty and at the time we are talking about, Pauline was thirteen and Betty was...

How My Dad Won the War - Twice

The Home Guard had a pillbox down Clock House Lane with a Sergeant Wood in charge and one morning when dawn...

Children's roles in the War

Then there were some billeted on the hills with the farmers there, and then there used to be an old cart,...

Wartime Memoirs of Mrs Mary Dickin of Risley, Derbyshire.

As war broke out, in 1939, Mary Dickin was only twelve years old and lived in Risley, Derbyshire with her...

German Plane in School Playground in Locks Heath

I had 1 older sister, Maureen 21, brothers Richard and Christopher and a younger sister, Jacqueline born in...

Crewe in Wartime - A Child's Picture

I had the "handles end". Crewe was a railway town and mum couldn't get around with the pram on...

Life in a Country Village - A Dorset Boy Remembers

There had been a large yew tree up against the wall of the church and when we looked out all we could...

And so away again. Part 3.

She then drove to Milford on Sea where there was a small temporary hostel for boys and girls. This time at...

An Angel’s War

The newspapers were forecasting that war with Germany was imminent so on the 1st September my Grandad...

Evacuation with Plymouth High School

Wilf Radford worked on the Treffry Estate, they were a lovely couple, childless and he was in the 'Home...

Bombs and bullies for London evacuee

My grandmother was a Salvation Army officer so that's where the Salvation Army first came in. When my...

The glint in his eye

Suddenly we found that a group of German prisoners of war, based I know not where, had been pressed into...

The Memories of a Schoolgirl

My father travelled on a bicycle to the railway station at Bere Alston and caught a train to Plymouth to...

World War II Evacuation from Liverpool

We arrived by train at Ormskirk and were taken to a school to be allocated a place to stay. i was taken...

Wartime memories of living in Maulden, Bedfordshire Part One

The Bovril came to Ampthill from London, Bond Street in London. Oh, yes we did have ‘Workers’...

A Warimte Childhood in London/Cornwall

My Mum and Dad were worrying that I was not getting enough food. On one day when Mum and Dad came to...

The Last Days of War

We had a spare room and my mum was asked by one of the aircrew men, a man called Joe Grady, if...