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A wartime childhood in Leominster

Milk was delivered to the door in a lidded milk pail with half pint and one pint measures hooked inside. It...

Wartime Memories of the Cory Family

The Day War Broke Out

Six months later round about the time Dunkirk was going on it was decided by my parents that we children...

The Russians are coming-Remembered by a young German Girl

I have no idea what I thought a Russian was, but if Omi and Mutti were that frightened, then a Russian must...

A Wartime Hoarder

Silver/grey barrage balloons floated in a gentle August breeze above the Queen's Park recreation ground...

My Memories of the war

Many of the men from the village were called up into the armed forces, or directed to work at Number 3...

Stories from an Australian WNEL

My brother Lyall joined the Australian Army when he was 17 and was going to New Guinea, and I was working...

Memories

These measured half a pint, one pint and a quart sizes so together with the clip-clip of the pony's...

My Memories of World War 2

Some went overseas to Canada, America, New Zealand and Australia, but one of the ships carrying children...

Nursing in Suez in Egypt during the War

I told the doctor who looked after the children, Dr. Gould who I think came from the Isle of Wight ,and...

Vera Elizabeth Robson

Because Vera could drive she would often go with Dr. Horan's wife to Chepstow station to collect the...

Wartime Memories of a Small Boy

My father went to France with the British Expeditionary Force and my mother and I went to live with Army...

Memories of the War to End All Wars... and Before the Next One! Part 1

I was only eligible to be an eleven year old evacuee to the safety of Alnwick, which is an ancient market...

Wartime school and living

The Meetings were held at Orchard Street School and then at St. Johns Church Hall. My boyfriend, Ray was in...

A city girl on the land.

I remember big holes being dug in gardens, some six feet deep, to erect galvanised steel air-raid shelters,...

The Hunt For Roger Townsend

While Sidney was away on duty Queenie had a fling with an American sergeant on the base which resulted in...

Anne Bradford鈥檚 Story

We had a tall Victorian terraced house with a tiny front garden and only a concrete yard at the back so no...

Memoirs of an Evacuee - Part 1

Birthday, I found out many years later, that mum and dad and us six children were living in Granny...

Evacuation:our expedition from Bootle to Southport

More whistles were blown and the unaccompanied were lined up in twos, ready for the short walk to Marsh...

My War Day Childhood Memories

One story my mom told me was about a day my dad walked into a cafe in Penkridge and there was a...

Americans

The first, a quiet American of Italian decent, I met at a church fete in the sleepy village of Dunster, in...

A long walk to work!

During the war I was a nurse training to be a State Registered Fever Nurse in the isolation hospital at...

THREE LIVES IN TRANSIT

Newcastle To Alnwick - An Evacuee's Story

We had a tall Victorian terraced house with a tiny front garden and only a concrete yard at the back so no...

Wartime Childhood in Warley

We lived in Warley, there was mom, dad and my sister Pamela who's 8 years younger than me. I started...

I had a seat on father's cross bar

Unfortunately, during that weekend, there had been bombing in the centre of town and the relatives were...