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War Memories of Mrs Rogers

Mrs Rogers had six or seven children, they all live in Bournemouth, they all go and visit her regularly,...

Memories of school days in Derry

My father fought through 2 World Wars on active service with the Royal Navy on ships such as the Warspite,...

My Young Life in Market Drayton

I spent my childhood at Sandy Lane, Red Bull, a couple of country miles from Market Drayton, Shropshire,...

The Way We Ate

She bought 40lbs of sugar, and ordered 48 cans of Carnation milk, and we children were sworn to secrecy...

Evacuation- a lifetime experience

For us, Rita and Linda, most summers were an opportunity for a visit to Trefor continuing as teenagers and...

A child in Ewell during the war

My parents returned to Ewell, leaving me with their friends in Bognor in case bombing started immediately...

Evacuating Hungary, and marrying a Welsh Soldier

So when they could see there were no German Nazi connections with me, then the British Government allowed a...

Childhood memories

The unsynchronised throbbing of the German bombers engines. As she passes the cups and saucers and prepares...

Memories of Mine

My eldest brother was a pioneer trooper in the Army, my other brother, who worked in the shipyards, was a...

Machine Gunned by a ME110

Bringing me back home from school one day during that summer, mother and I were machine gunned by a ME110...

Rene Recalls

However, my friends started to leave for home as the bombing of London hadn't materialised... Furniture...

Nursing Memories & Life during the War!

Trained as a nurse - R.S.C.N. registered as a Sick Children's Nurse. She was furious, referring to me...

Wartime childhood memories

Until June 17th 1944, Mum, dad and I lived at 41 Clivendon Road, Wimbledon... Mum was not happy about it...

liverpool evacuee

We arrived early afternoon at Bangor in north Wales and immediately telephoned our parents to let them know...

Promise of an Icecream

'My first distinct memory of the war was when I was a little girl I had to go to the dentist and...

Mary Mackie鈥檚 Story

When war was declared our family was on holiday in North Wales, so my sister and I joined our school in...

A Marvellous Adventure

The main difference between Witney and Ashford at that time was that Witney was a much smaller town and...

Playing football - and havoc - with a butterfly bomb in Newent

Here are some wartime stories passed down to me by my late mother Rachel Elise Green, father Albert John...

Grandchild of ex-POW's

In 1996, as a grandchild of ex POW's, I was invited to join the Pacific Venture on a trip to Japan to...

A Cracking story

After that we, we slept at the tube under ground station on lidos or bits of blanket or narrow bits of wood...

Yanks and Evacuees from London

Wartime in West Felton, a Shropshire village

Wartime in West Felton, a Shropshire village...

Childhood Memories of Rotherham.

The only bombs we had in Rotherham were during the holiday period late on in the war, about 1944... The...

Don't Cry

My mother did come, bringing my blind brother with her and she took a cottage nearby... We explained to my...

Prized shrapnel from a V1 Doodlebug

I used to have a big tin of shrapnel and I was quite annoyed many years later when my dad was sorting...

College and Bombs

Seeing incoming prisoners of war鈥e were having our lectures in various places within Chichester town...