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Another Lion's Den

When he arrived back in England he had to look for work and found a job in Chiswick working for James...

INVASION EVE 5th JUNE 1944

Approaching fast and low were hundreds of Dakota troop transport aircraft, the boys recognised them...

Quiet Heroes and Deadly Risks (2)

After a few years in Spain later on , I met an Irish girl in an American piano bar, where I worked,....

What I Never Told Mother:Part Three

In Joan Gordon's book, 鈥榃hat I Never Told Mother,鈥� she describes her wartime memories of...

Being a child

They weren't all that accurate, obviously the Germans were waiting for reports of where they landed and...

A Dover evacuee's story

On June 2, 1940, my elder sister Jeanne and I, together with hundreds of children, marched to Dover Priory...

MEMORIES OF A C.O.R.B. (CHILDREN'S OVERSEAS RECEPTION BOARD) EVACUEE 1940 - 1944

Growing up in the Strudley household in a town like Stratford with an angel like Auntie Frances was, in...

Escape to Whitehaven

In 1939 when war was declared I attended Heaton Grammar Boys secondary School in Newcastle, I was eleven...

Memoirs of World War Two: The Story of a Tioga County Soldier

This is the story of a Tioga County, Pennsylvania, soldier during World War II....

A School Boys Recollections

Fortunately it was a false alarm - some RAF aircrew had been letting their hair down in the Tigers...

Personal Memories

Iwas a young woman during World War II and lived in Stockport, Cheshire. During the war in Stockport we had...

'Plane in the Window

We lived ten miles north of Brighton, near the Haywards Heath golf course and had become accustomed to the...

Tears of a War Child

At the time, she was living in a back-to-back terraced house in Leeds, between Burley and Hyde Park, with...

Evacuated so near Home We Never Opened our Sandwiches

Iris Plenderleith, younger sister of Vera, recalled her evacuation to Darwen and stories concerning her...

V E Day Memories of Iris Newbould nee Faulkner

At 17 1⁄2 I volunteered for the Land Army to help grow food for our country. I enjoyed my days in...

鈥淲e enjoyed it 鈥� we were young鈥�

They were Rhode Island Reds and we used to preserve the eggs in waterglass... My mother used to make...

Pauline Bolton's Story

I was born in Luton Bedfordshire just one field away from Luton Airport, on the 25th October 1937, my name...

Through a childs' eyes.

Men who lived near us started to leave, joining the armed forces, but my dad worked in the coalmine at...

My Experiences As An Evacuee 1939 鈥� 1940

My sister Christine and I were among the first children to be evacuated from London at the beginning of the...

My school-boy war years

While I was in the village we were also bombed, because some of the German airplanes, returning from...

A War Baby in St. Albans

The bombers were mainly going to De Havillands but hit St. Albans by mistake. There were 2 POW camps in St....

A Boy's Recollection of Early War Days.

Soon after this his company left for France as part of the British Epeditionary Force and we did not see...

Life in Children's Home

We all went to live in the Orphaned Children's Home in Ross Street, Cambridge where I stayed until...

Remembering Wartime Droitwich.

During the war years I lived in that street with my parents William and Edith Hemming and my two brothers...

A smile and a wave

I remember coming home along Halfway Street in Sidcup, and seeing the sky burning like an inferno over...

Under the Table

My mother and I lived in Eye Suffolk and she had a job in a cafe on or near eye airport where...