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Refugee from Guernsey

My sister Sylvia and brother Brian were separated, each going onto a different boat. My father was given...

Evacuees from Gravesend to rural Suffolk - happy days

The day war broke out on the 3rd of September 1939 saw the children of Mr John and Mrs Violet Meiklejohn...

A Noisy Upbringing

We were so used to the tremendous nightly racket that we woke one morning under our Morrison to find most...

Growing up During The War

They lived in Lord Duncan St behind the barracks on Cross Lane and then after the war her mum remarried and...

The Safety of My Children

I said, 鈥淎way, I'm going away,鈥� and I hurried the kids out of the door... I was talking to...

Family Life in Birdham

My two older sisters Nancy and Betty joined the land army during the war, whilst I, my younger brother Den...

Dashed Dreams - VE Day

Later, in the Market Field the Fete was in full swing where Gwen and her friend Sally were running the...

Teacher training in top-coats

When we did our exams we still had to sit in our coats because the blitz in Liverpool had completely blown...

Liberation from the German Occupation of Guernsey,, and afterwards

At the top of my wife's family's home at the Mont Saint, there's a patch of ground which...

A Schoolboy Remmebers.

Such was the fear of German bombs falling on the Midlands that Mum persuaded Dad, who was already retired,...

A CHILDS MEMORIES OF WW11

My mother, younger Sister Claire and I were evacuated to Berkhampstead in 1941 where we were joined by my...

It's an ill wind

As a youth during the second world war, my home was alongside the A47 trunk road, some 4 miles west of...

Returning to Coventry after 2 years evacuation

When I returned from Wales to Coventry in 1942 to start school during 1943, there was one occasion when the...

Babbing for eels

Chubby the farmers son and another farmer's son would go off netting for fish with Meek, we were not...

Charged by a Bull

Permission had to be granted from the Women's Land Army 鈥� and soon I found myself milking twelve...

Work during wartime

Late in 1941 the whole family moved to Erdington where we moved in with Mr and Mrs Jopling, their eight...

Being a Girl Guide during World War Two

We kept the Guide promise, which is not very different to the promise you make today: I promise I will do...

A Doodle Bug Through My Window

I suppose it was almost half a mile away and presumably had been hit by anti aircraft guns which had...

TOYS CHILDREN MADE IN THE WAR

I think most children would have liked the pleasure of having a German bomber crash so that they could cut...

My Wartime Memories

The village was about 5 miles from the RAF fighter base at Biggin Hill and had an army camp housing 9...

A Schoolgirl In Wartime

My school, St.James C of E was next to a large wooded Common; on the opposite side of the Common was a...

The Indomitable Parrot

Grandparents, Nan and John Young, owned a then 'traditional' pie and mash shop in Penwith Road,...

Interview with Alice Short

I'd gone to, my husband and I, I was married then, we'd gone to New Brighton on the Friday night...

Memories of Graham Buckingham

We got down there on a dark night, and when we went to get the canoe, which was made of canvas,...

Things that go "BUMP ! " in the night.

The time - a clear moonlit night in January 1943, the place - a cold , dark and seemingly very remote small...

WAR MEMORY

Claude joined the Air Corps at the school and flew as a Cadet with the R.A.F. The Training Aerodrome was at...