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Memories Of WW2: A Child in North Birmingham

My Father who had joined the A.R.P. was on duty on this particular night and part of his party was Ted, my...

The War as I Knew It - Part 1

By this time my mother was getting worried about us, so she decided to send my sister Muriel and I to my...

The War Years (Part 2) 1941 - 1945 : extract from a personal history

Those three years are full of memories, too numerous to recount in their entirety, but several stand out...

Geoffrey Darby -Wartime Memories

As a cub and later a scout in the 32nd Huddersfield Group at the Moldgreen Methodist Church down Wakefield...

Memories of Growing Up in Liverpool during WW2

After the declaration of war, the first significant incident was when a German U-Boat slipped into the...

A Wartime Childhood

One of my earliest memories is our Sunday afternoon cycle rides into the surrounding countryside - my...

A Schoolboy's Memories of Evacuation

They were both devout Salvation Army soldiers and he played a trumpet in the band at the Leicester...

A Schoolboy's Memories of Evacuation

They were both devout Salvation Army soldiers and he played a trumpet in the band at the Leicester...

Teenagers Memories of the War (Part 1)

A little while later we were told that these little boats bravely sailed over to Dunkirk and neighbouring...

Wartime memories of my childhood in Bedford Part 3 - My father's (Major C V Clarke) invention of a trench digging machine and th

The one establishment under the Ministry of Defence that he set up was this research and development weapon...

The Mournes and Me: Kath's Story

I can remember watching the people walking along the Dundrum Road, people who had walked the whole way from...

War Memories of Derry

I was born in a quiet and rather sad town that was Derry before 1939. Fortunately, Derry escaped attack,...

The Age Of Fear (Chapter 2)

We could hear her shouting from behind the door, telling the lady to take the boys away... This time much...

Remembering the War

In August 1939 I went on holiday to Herne Bay in Kent and one day walking along the front I heard the...

West Ham War Years - Young Person's View

Several hundred people bombed out of their homes in the Tidal Basin area of the borough were being housed...

Evacuation Memories

We came to live in Dagenham, my mum, dad, brother and myself in 1931, when I was three years old, on the...

Childhood Memories from Rayleigh, Essex: School Life

We collected souvenirs of every description, pieces of British and German aircraft, German being the most...

Rosemary's Tribute

I was born in 1935 in Mottingham SE9 into a family called Phillips, a happy extended family with...

WW2 Extracts

Dad became an ARP Warden and a battery of heavy anti-aircraft guns was installed on Dartford Heath. One...

Escape from France, June 1940

I was 10 years old, my father was English working for an Anglo- French manufacturing company in Mantes,...

My War-Time Memories (aged 2 to 7)

Had Mum and Dad been able to foresee the events that were to unfold upon our return, their decision to...

Memories of the War in Aylesbury

My mothers brother and wife lived in Stockwell, London with two children Alf and June. Air Raids I once...

Final Years -Part Three

The noise was tremendous; anti-aircraft guns blasting shells into the sky, the whistle of bombs then their...

Evacuee's War

Mrs Lees brother-in-law was Archibald McIndoe the famous plastic surgeon who carried out wonderful surgery...

A Bag Full of Conkers

A man I worked with years later told me that when he cycled home to Henley that evening there where craters...

Life As An Evacuee

While we were overjoyed to see him, we cried at the thought of going back to Liverpool, and Auntie Lila...