One of my very first memories of the war was the Battle of Dunkirk, where the Germans drove the British...
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Some were billeted at the big house, just up the road from us, which belonged to a millionaire named Mr...
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The sirens were heard for real only once, reputedly when a stray bomber got lost looking for Liverpool...
Stockings were in short supply, and my friend Dorothy and I used to put gravy browning on our legs, with a...
The blackouts spring to mind and the council coming down the street sawing off the railings, the pig bins,...
My mother died just before the war, and I was the oldest of 13 children, 9 boys and 4 girls, including two...
We moved away from Shrewsbury to Castle Cary in Somerset where my Aunty and Uncle lived. Mickey Mouse was...
My infant school was taken over by the military to house soldiers and the junior school was turned into a...
When the bombing in London became more intense my younger brother and sister were evacuated through Peckham...
Conisbrough, the South Yorkshire village where I have lived all my life, is situated between Doncaster and...
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I left Sunderland's train station with my brother and two cousins... I told the lady repeatedly that I...
Soon there were ration books, clothing coupons, identity cards, gasmasks and the blackout.Our class sizes...
Gerry used the facilities so he asked them if he could go to some islands near Rotterdam/Belgium as there...
Rex had gone to Manchester Grammar School, and whilst there, exchange trips to Germany were organised, and...
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