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The War For One Child (Chapter 2)

For the expected D-day casualties, there were several military Hospitals created in the Dorset/Hampshire...

The Allclear Siren

As the war progressed and the bombing, my brother and I with other children from Hylton Road School were...

Memories of Swaythling and my special war wound by Mary Hennessy

The German plane bombed Cunliffe Owens, who made Spitfires at Southampton Airport, then it turned around,...

A shape of Things to Come

Child's Recollection of WW2 in Brighton

This was in the vicinity of Walpole Terrace, where Brighton College is now. My sister Peggy fell in love...

KENT 1 EVACUEE

In 1943, because of renewed bombing, I was evacuated from London, for the second time, to the country town...

Evacuation to Wales 1940 - 1941

Colin must have been a relation to Aunty, Uncle and Pamela. I also remember when I came home from Wales, my...

ONE OF MANY

There was no room for about 10 of us on the buses so we went by horsebox to meet up with about...

大象传媒 WARTIME SOUND RECORDIST

When I first started, I worked a lot with Richard Dimbleby, he was the man, he wrote to the 大象传媒 saying he...

World War in Gourock

Air-raid shelters were also built in the park for those who did not have a close so when the air-raid siren...

Wartime Schoolchild in Hull

Some of the memories I have of the War years in Hull, were hearing the loud sound of the Air Raid Sirens...

Whitehawk came up trumps!

On a cool October afternoon a woebegone troupe of Londoners staggered out of a crowded train at Brighton...

Heswall Hills Station in WW2

I worked early and late shifts alternate weeks, and when Mr. West was not on duty, I was in charge of both...

The war through the eyes of a child

For the times that we werent at our Grandparents house my mother got us an "Anderson Shelter",...

A young man's experience of war

Also, I saw the Gillingham bus station in Nelson Road, Gillingham hit by a bomb on the night of 27/28...

HOW NOT TO POLISH A FLOOR Part 2

In April 1945 I left Weeton and as a Flight Sergeant and a trained teacher I was posted to a large mansion...

Memories of WW2

Milk was delivered by a horse-drawn milk float, the butcher's van was horse-drawn and the paraffin man...

A London Evacuee's War

The brothers and sisters they had families, they had friends who were in the Services and there always...

Anglo-Dutch Memories

Later we moved to a shop and off-licence in a small village called Baddesley Ensor, which was really lovely...

Life as an evacuee

This continued, and was very heavy, for some time till I got fed up and wrote to my own parents and told...

I fell in love with a German spy!

I was returning to London where I taught, and Mira was going first to Pembroke and then on to London......

A Child's Memories of the Southampton Blitz - later a heroine in Hampshire

I was living at 2 Sandringham Road, Bittern Park, Southampton at the beginning of the war....

A child's wartime memories in a quiet rural county

From our orchard, the distant anti-aircraft defences enabled us to judge whether it was Birmingham or...

Anglo-Dutch Memories

Later we moved to a shop and off-licence in a small village called Baddesley Ensor, which was really lovely...

Hitching a ride to Schenectady

I have one wonderful story from Bombay, his ship was there for whatever reason and he saw another troop...

Teenager from Country to London.

One piece of excitement came one Saturday morning when a German plane suddenly appeared out of the blue and...