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A North London Childhood and My Father's Vists Home

We went to bed upstairs to our own bedroom every night, and when the siren sounded our mother got us up...

The landgirl who became the farmer's wife

One of our guests at one of our Christmas dinners was Gustav Braun, whom we had met at chapel and who had...

Destination Unknown

First stop Woolwich Arsenal Station for the train to London Bridge Station... We left the bus and helped...

Memories of a Child’s Evacuation from Guernsey

My chief memories of our time there are of the daily orange looking stew served to us, a noisy party of...

A SMALL CHILD IN LEWISHAM

This was only used on special days where my mum would play the piano and everyone in the family and close...

A lucky escape

My grandfather had a nice house on the island where he worked as an architect, and it seemed life would be...

Coventry Blitz

I suspect the Grandpa never allowed Hans to actually work in the kitchen garden, this was not due to...

Third time lucky

I really wish I hadn't been taken in.I have no memories of the first sight of the family.The kid's...

V1's on London: a personal experience of Douglas John Mora.

Early that morning about one hundred boys and several dozen nuns were mustered in the convent chapel for...

Childhood Wartime Memories

My parents were married on 1 July 1939 and, unaware of the imminent danger of war had their honeymoon in St...

Geddington, Northants

I had to collect the cows take them to be milked, pumped up gallons of water for the trough, feed the cows,...

I Didn't Listen to My Mother

Very soon my Sister, Brother and I were put on a train along with many other children and eventually ended...

The influx of people coming to Leiston as a result of war

An influx of Scotsmen with the Cameroonian Regiment and the Royal Scots Fusiliers as well as members of...

Serchlight Party on our Farm

Opposite us over the river was Kneeton aerodrome and at night at about 1 O'clock in the morning the...

I still have the bullet that bore my name

Richard Whitmore, the writer and broadcaster of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, was six years old when World War...

My Boyhood memories of the 2nd WW pt 3

During this time I seem to remember my mother, sister and I went to visit or stay with my father's...

All is Forgiven

A complicated train journey resulted in our arrival at a river boundary between the Russian and British...

Schoolgirl memories of the Second World War

The only bombs that fell near to us were in the fields, although during the Blitz we could see the glow in...

LEISURE TIME FOR A SCHOOLBOY

I went to the cinema at the top of the village, on the road to Pinner Green, as often as I could....

Impressions of a War Child (part one)

The first few months of the ‘phoney’ war, as it was dubbed, seemed mainly concerned with...

THROUGH THE EYES OF A SMALL BOY

I recall my mum telling Ethel, whatever happens we must stay together. Ethel wrote home and mum answered,...

My Little Evacuees

My younger brother, John, aged 6, and myself, Edward, aged 12, went to stay with an elderly couple by the...

Evacuations and Weddings - A Birth and a Rocket

My eldest sister, ‘J’, was engaged to be married and her fiancé's relations had...

A Young Boy (8 - 14 years) and World War Two

At the time I was living with my parents in a house on a hill in Coulsdon, Surrey about 12 miles south...

Evacuee Days

The fact that girls were also at the evacuation centre was a bonus because the boys learned to show respect...

Dodging Bullets

Well this particular morning there was an Air Raid Warden at the door delivering ear plugs or something...