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Teenagers in Lagos.

When the British Army arrived in Lagos the soldiers were billeted in our empty school buildings so we would...

Hampshire's War

There were many dogfights between German planes and our planes over the village and one evening when we...

YANKS, CANADIANS, BRITS, POLES.

ONE, NO LONGER YOUTHFUL LADY, WITH A NERVOUS TWITCH SANG 'SOME DAY MY PRINCE WILL COME'. THIS...

A Shop Girl in Hove

With the approach of D Day.- only we did not know then what it was all about - the large houses in...

鈥淢y Dad came back from Dunkirk鈥�

My Dad came back from Dunkirk鈥� My birthday was 29 September I remember that birthday because I had a...

A Childhood in Wartime Brisbrooke (School)

In 1940, as a six year old, I attended Bisbrooke C. of E Junior and Infants School situated just inside the...

With just our gas masks and a change of clothing

I had left school so my younger sister went back in to the village and stayed with Mr Spencer's Mother,...

World War II Recollections Chapter I

On this occasion however, there were troops stationed on Clairville Common, a searchlight battery with a...

Lorries, Tanks and Chocolate

During the week leading up to D-Day a vast army of lorries, trucks, gun carriers and tanks were parked...

WW2 Memories

The next day we left for Armagh which I don't remember, we stayed there for a while and then went to my...

Everything changed - childhood memories of the outbreak of war

My sister Anne had already left to stay with relations in Yorkshire and I was to follow soon. After what...

Interview About World War 2, by Eileen, written by Craig Billington

Eileen replied that she had a mother, sister and a brother, her brother was ill and her sister went into...

BOYHOOD IN CALLINGTON

My name is William Pascoe and I was born in 1932, in Dupath Road, Callington, Cornwall, where my father...

A Soldier's Son - Family Life in St Helens during WW2

War was declared to my family in St Helens, Lancashire when Eunice Gerrard the 11yr old daughter of a...

I joined the ARP

I worked in my mother's shop during the war, Barkers, cooked meat and groceries because it wasn't...

LANDGIRL BECOMES PEACE CAMPAIGNER

So I joined the Land Army and followed him to a posting nearby and worked at Mounts Nursery, Canterbury,...

Wartime memories of Keighley

If they'd have been in London they would already have been machine gunning them they said, and they...

War Around Woodham Ferrers

We realised they were German bombers, probably heading for North Weald aerodrome which was bombed. I...

Evacuee: Belated Bath Time

At the age of eleven, I waved goodbye to my mother at Paddington station and along with lots of other...

TOWN AND COUNTRY

Captain Faulkner, the last private owner of Bletchley Park who sold the house to the government, was my...

Evacuated to Wilmslow and Macclesfield by Margaret Clarke (nee Weaver)

Evacuated to Wilmslow and Macclesfield by Margaret Clarke. Winifred was allowed to go home because she had...

Weetabix and Butter

Off we were dispatched to Hareford St, School Stepney, labeled and sorted onto a fleet of London buses and...

Evacuated to Hexton Manor House, Herts - by Pat Petit

Later on that year I was evacuated, with my brother, to Hexton Manor near Bedfordshire, Herts. Whereas most...

As a cook I once ended up on the floor, covered in custard?

After selection I was sent to Conningsby and Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire, then we all went to Bourne, near...

Peace In War

We sheltered under the stairs, my mother had a big mattress and pillows under the stairs and we had a...

Wartime Work in the Oxford Institute of Statistics

My younger brother, Dick, was trained as a RAF pilot, and he was attached in 1944 to the army, for glider...