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Difficult Decisions

In Vancouver I met my Granny, who lived there, and then we went on by boat to Victoria where we lived for...

Childhood Memories

Over the school door there was a First World War Memorial and one morning myself and another pupil were...

My Memories from Indian Queens

I do remember one particular night in 1942, aircraft were overhead and we heard the whistling noises of the...

Always take your gas mask

The Buckingham regiment ended up in Burma, I think, fighting the Japanese, these country lads had never...

Once a Nobody now a Somebody

On the outbreak of WWII, along with her sister Catherine, they joined the ATS working on the land, doing...

Stroking the Grass

On the orders of the Ministry of Health the hospital had made accommodation available for 800 wounded...

Patricia's Tale

My friend lived next door to us her name was Joyce and in her garden was a factory that made pianos. Joyce...

So Close Yet So Far

I remember my grandparents and my uncle lived next door, my uncle was just too young to go into the RAF and...

Critics of the Dam Busters

Sir, We have read with disappointment and distress the account in The Nor1hern Whig of the -carefully...

Farmers - They Never Had It So Good

With no command structure or supervising inspectorate, the girls were often at the mercy of unscrupulous...

Wartime school / we knitted for England

My sister also moved to Kidderminster from London, with her baby boy, and he had a Mickey Mouse respirator...

GLEANING,FIREWATCH, HOMEGUARD

My dad鈥榮 photograph is in the Gas Museum at Aylestone, kitted out in his Home Guard uniform. We had a...

Home Front. A boy鈥檚 experience living in a major port.

I joined the boy scouts and collected many achievement badges and I was a member of the Christchurch Abbey...

Burlington Bombings and Athol Memories Part 2

In the latter stages one began to notice them taking station when we were going to go on a big raid.One...

VE Day (Not really a story - just recollections)

My mother learnt how to make things like fatless sponges and mintoes with dried milk and would get to know...

Church End, my life

My sister, Joyce aged 11 and my brother aged 6 went to our school taking with us our gas masks, bags and...

Supporting the Forces

After a few months, I was sent to Tempsford, Beds to start a new canteen near fields and woods... We girls...

A Wartime Childhood in West Wales

West Wales was a long way from the action but I do remember hearing the drone of the German Bombers on...

A Child of the War in Gosport

We were an ordinary family of four, mother, father and a sister Mary five years older than me.On the first...

Down on the farm

The farmer saw me and said "I told you so now get back to work". I had to get some money -...

Street Lamps Lit at Last

We soon found ourselves back in Twickenham, only to be uprooted again and taken to Pontefract as a V1...

German aircraft Firing at My Aunt and I

A Sitting with mother, father and my 4 brothers, listening to the wireless as Neville Chamberlain, Prime...

Memories of WW2

I was very disappointed, as most of my friends had been going to Kings Road Secondary in Rosyth and this...

A Night in the Shelter

As soon as Mum is on the stairs, dad is dressed, and carrying two pieces of blanket, goes into the...

My happy days being evacuated from the North East to the Lake District

His father was a farmer but as the family grew, the younger ones had to look to what they were going to...

My War story By Norman Duff