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German Voices in my House

In winter it consisted of a navy blue serge tunic with a while blouse and tie, a badge, a winter coat and...

Fifteen - Twenty one

I can always remember coming home from the Business College I attended in Paisley and walking down Well...

How I Learned To Run

At the height of the blitz my gran was looking after me, my younger brother and two boy cousins whilst my...

More frightening than Hitler

So many lived sad and lonely lives caring for other peoples children with no prospect of marriage and their...

Four lemons and a crab

On eday when I arrived at Charing Cross a bomber came over and bombed the Admiralty... On one occasion when...

Gladys and Val Remember

George and Ivy People's War

Dad was from a family of four with a younger brother William and two sisters Edith and Ann. Whilst both...

A Teenager in Jersey during the German Occupation, 1940-45

We were told that the Germans were already coming into the channel just off Jersey and were stopping the...

More Memories from Folkestone

One day a German plane crashed nearby and we kids all rushed to have a look, I picked up a boot and...

Wartime in Worthing

Later we had two boys from Battersea Grammar School who did know the difference between porridge and stew...

Dora's Story

Jim often went to the Cemetery, because they used to have big places — Methodist, Baptist Catholic...

A Slippery Fish and a Ball of Wool

Spurred on by my younger brother Jack having become a bomber pilot, I joined the WAAF. After joining the...

DIGGING FOR VICTORY; WINSTON AT THE RACES

PEOPLE IN STORY: Daphne S, aged 9½ at the start of the war LOCATION OF STORY: Near Swindon, Wiltshire...

I Missed Being in the Hubbub of the War

Home at start of war: Ashford Kent Address in Witney: Taynton, Burford, Oxon. I can only remember sitting...

To the Manor evacuated

We had arrived in Kings Walden on September 1st complete with gas masks, hand luggage and labels round our...

"We could have been electrocuted"

After the bombing in Liverpool city centre I went with my eldest brother to see if the company he worked...

At school During WW2

A lecture hall, a science lab, a sick bay, lots of classrooms with new furniture, a library... I have...

WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part seven)

Received a marvelous letter from Edwin, he is very well now, he is under canvas, they all feel much happier...

A country schoolboy during WW2

I was born in 1931 and was attending Boyton Council School Nr Launceston, Cornwall when war was declared in...

Neutral but at War

As the war progressed Irish cargo ships were torpedoed and German aircraft dropped bombs on North Dublin,...

Memories Of A 14 Year Old Boy In Plymouth

We boys soon all had pen friends with notes being left in the girls' desks. Saturday was the big night...

1939

Sheffield was the centre of the Steel industry and was a prime target for German bombing raids. My bother...

Blitz at Broomhill, Greenock

Issues in Orpington and the Local Area

Being on the south flank of London, it was a regular dumping ground for German bombs when unescorted...

SCHOOL DAYS IN 1936 - RODNEY DAVIDSON

My brothers, sisters and I were pit on a train to Frome we did not know at the time I ended up...

Starting School on My Birthday!

We were being sent to safety in Otley, a small country town only a few miles away from our big city of...