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"War Time" with a happy ending

We were taken to the Great Western Hotel, then I and my mum and some children went to the Trelawney Hotel...

My War at school on the railway and in the Army

They came from Leeds and with their teachers, had lessons in the village school. Disembarking at...

THE BLACK 40鈥檚 - GONE

Once, when Dad was stationed at Norfolk we went to him in his 鈥渄igs鈥�. We had to fetch the water...

From the begining

I found my room and inside it was just bare walls and bare floors with plain wooden floors with plain...

Scattered memories of wartime Wednesbury

The sugar ration was very small and Dad couldn't drink tea without sugar so Gwen and I gave up sugar......

Buxton in the second World War (1939-45)

The grange School in Buxton park was taken over for the boys of the 'Belgian College' and most of...

Mrs Holden's War

My Dad worked on the Docks and my Mum looked after us at home. My Mum had to dye sheets to put...

Misplaced account

Apparently two weeks earlier he had asked the lady if she would take any evacuees, she said she would like...

My memories of the lost years: 1939-1945. Chapter 7

What was good enough for Lords and Ladies was definitely good enough for Edna and Audrey. Many years later...

A Young Evacuee's Childhood Wartime Memories

On one of the journeys out of London, I remember children who needed the toilet, being passed by hand over...

Escape from China (Part 4) Home at Last

More of this story can be read in "A Missionary Family's Life and Escape from China", submitted...

Bitter-Sweet Sixteen

Fortunately there was a small airfield with RAF personnel not far from Allens Green, so partners were not...

A Gas mask to suit everyone. (Air Raids and Children鈥檚 Gas Masks)

Most homes had air-raid shelters built in their gardens for families to flee to whenever that wailing siren...

Dad's Missing Trousers

Dad was in the Merchant Navy so he was transferred to the Royal Navy on minesweepers... Early in the War...

Wartime Memories

Due to the small number of places available at both Harrow Weald and Harrow County School and the fact that...

The Night Sheildfield was bombed

During the war I remember eating mince and potatoes for dinner which, at the time was my favourite and I...

My memories of World War Two as a boy

My elder brother Barry was 19 months older than me and my eldest brother Alan is 5 years older than I am....

Random Jottings

'Living On The Runway at Eglinton 'and 'My Brother The Hero'

My brother Ben made a beeline through fields and hedges, unanchored the boat, oared out on the rough sea...

Three for the price of two

Apparently two weeks earlier he had asked the lady if she would take any evacuees, she said she would like...

I still made it to art school

However, my sister and I slept comfortably in the bunk Dad had made, although there was the constant noise...

Life in London

I worked in a number of places included The Coppins, owned by Marina, Duchess of Kent, soon after her...

Essentials Rationed

I remember the Christmas of 1942, it was just before my eighth birthday on New Years Eve and I had to be...

A Day In My Family's War Experience

The air raid siren had gone, my mother had gone into the Morrison shelter, which was in the dining room,...

THE DAY THE BARRAGE BALLOONS STAYED DOWN AND THE SIRENS REMAINED SILENT

Memories of Wartime

At the Big School, I wrote an imaginary story of a boy's escape from France to this country and worked...