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Wartime childhood

My home was in London but when war started I was on holiday with my grandmother in Epsom... By September...

Occupation of Aarschot, Belgium

We found out later that the soldiers were German, dressed in Belgian uniforms. They killed all my dad's...

A Sweet on Liberation Day in Guernsey

I was at home in Rouge Huis Avenue, St Peter Port, with my daughter Jenny, because I had a feeling that I...

Early memories of the war

Finally we had a family of 4 - the father traveled to London daily, his wife helped my mother and the two...

A child in the War by Sarah Leighton

Every weekend my sister and i would help my father to count the coupons which would then be taken to the...

A Wartime Childhood in Croydon

We stood and watched them diving down, making a screaming noise, as they bombed Croydon airfield. When the...

GRETA'S WAR

Covered In Mud

The flames lit Swansea by night and the germans returned for three nights to destroy Swansea. With the VE...

A child in South Manchester

My grandfather, a builder, had the lounge re-enforced with 4 pillars from floor to ceiling and we then used...

LONDON CALLING

We didn't have to wait long for the next time, for in between we had plenty more big band music:...

Audrey Fox's Wartime memories.

My wartime memories are based on my life in Worcester with my parents Nora and 'Bert Fox. I was due to...

A CHILD REMEMBERS THE WAR

Although I didn't know it at the time, my mother shortly became pregnant with my sister and I was sent...

An Extended Visit to Leeds

Mr Wilson worked for a stationery firm in Leeds so we were never short of paper and pencils. My sister and...

Wartime Nursing in Bromsgrove

From Dudley Road we were transferred to a Military Hospital consisting of rows of Nissen huts in the...

STRAWBERRY HILL MARKET GARDEN DURING THE WAR

When the air raids started and Plymouth was bombed, enemy planes would pick up sight of the river and...

My Childhood exploits as an Evacuee

After a few months my mother and younger brother,Michael, came to live close by at Bruen Abbey. So with all...

Phyllis's Threshing

In a group of four girls we were picked up by taxi at 6.30 am to be taken out to various farms...

A child in the war

The funny part of the story, was that I remember my Dad, who was stationed at Woolidge, walking across the...

Memories of Great Barr and Streetly

The firm had been started in Aston, Birmingham, by Wilfred's father and uncle at the beginning of the...

Hedge-hopping Heinkels

One morning I was out in the back garden when there was a loud roaring noise and a Heinkel bomber which was...

My Childhood - The War Years

We, my Mum, Dad, brother Duncan and me lived in a bungalow in 2 acres of land between Rotherham and...

Out of the dark into the light pt1

Now all these holes had been dug and you might think that was it until some government officials said while...

Val Potter's Wartime Memories

When, in 1941, invasion was feared, my mother left my second brother at boarding school and took us two...

A Life Example

Bombs had fallen too close for comfort, just a street away from Eaton Drive, North Romford, and family...

On the Home Front, Forton Heath, Shropshire

Ken Offland: On the Home Front, Forton Heath, Shropshire. I was born in a village called Forton Heath, just...

The Night Habberley Valley was Bombed

Eva Landon lived in the White Cottage in the valley and we found out later that her father had shovelled up...