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Besotted with Aeroplanes

My bike was sent to me on the train and my leisure time was spent at Brize Norton, Carterton and Witney...

The Dark Cloud-A Child's Personal Experience

My knowledge of war was based on scanty reports on the radio, about the Spanish Civil War and from the...

Kathleen's WW2 childhood memories. Part 1 Six years old and scared!

I used to feel very scared when I could hear the German airplanes roaring across the sky to bomb Plymouth....

Many Memories

I was about 4½ years old because my brother.... it was going all over Bedford that night because, my...

Southborough Wartime Childhood - part 2

The fire services would probably need a greater supply of water during the war than they would in...

JOYS WAR EXPERIENCES

I was attending St Michaels School and I remember that one day, my brother Phillip and my Mother and I went...

Southborough Wartime Childhood - Part 2

The fire services would probably need a greater supply of water during the war than they would in...

On being a Child in Wartime

As the war progressed I was sent to live with distant relatives in the heart of Sussex, far away from our...

EVACUATIONS (Jean Ward)

In October 1940 the pupils from Newcastle were evacuated to Ambleside in the Lake District and I was able...

Sunday Watch Patrol

I was twelve years old and it was here in the garden that looked south over farmland that I was stationed...

A Junior School Child Remembers

Sadly Alan and Dennis lost their father when his ship H.M.S Kelly sank off the coast of Crete. But boys...

Memories of the War as a Young Boy

When they were bombed out they would come with their mum and their children then. There was a door to go...

No Evacuation from Harlesden

We had a very old wooden kitchen table, my uncle made it as a wedding present for Mum and Dad, it was...

Childhood Memories

My father never threw anything away and made use of bits of metal, wood and leather to make toys. I still...

Return of the Evacuee

I had very little information to go on, but I provided the name of the family and the only other fact,...

My war memories

When the war ended and my uncle Issy Rose, known to his regiment as "Taff", was repatriated to this...

A family in the Belfast Blitz

In the time that my brother was away, on the Easter Tuesday of the blitz, the Navy man passed the window...

Childhood memories

At that moment an almighty crash sounded and Dad said it was the Arethusa in Chatham Dockyard having...

London is Bombed

In the drawing room were two grand pianos, one belonged to Ernest Lough, he recorded “Oh for the...

Childhood Throughout the War Years

I had a brother and sister who were a lot older than I. My brother was in the Army, he being aged...

A Deported Child’s memories of life at Biberach

, and it was dark, and scary, and we slept on straw, straw mattresses, and we had to burn them once,...

The Maritime Regiment, Italian POW's and Invisible Mending

With my elder sister, I was privileged to ‘help out’ at the local canteen which was situated...

Some Recollections of WW2

In great excitement, I left my treasured dinky cars parked inside makeshift garages made in the moist sand...

The Doodlebug Flying Bomb at Runfold, August 1944

The military town of Aldershot is only 2 miles north of the village, and London 35 Miles North to the North...

Coventry to Barford (Warwickshire)

Coventry received a lot of bombing and after one particularly rough night we got up to see that my aunt and...

A Secret Adventure

As we approached a farm there was the rat-tat-tat of bullet fire and then the terrible screeching of a...