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Hollesley , Suffolk

One afternoon we were playing at the rear of the house when we saw German and English fighters involved in...

Under the Stairs

On 21st December 1940 Lily and Jim were going dancing with some friends at the Tower Ballroom in New...

TOM'S WAR IN THAILAND

Another incident I remember, was one evening while out walking on Hampstead Heath, a German plane flew over...

Potted Memories of a Land Girl

Especially if rain had been forecast and we were happy in the knowledge that 'all was safely gathered...

Missed the boat — stuck in Guernsey

Video recording of Jack Ross interviewed by John Gaisford made on 12/3/2005 Edited transcript by J David...

When the Infirmary was bombed, we were told to get back on duty as soon as possible!

Though Leeds was not seriously bombed, one wing of the Infirmary was bombed and we were told to get back on...

Blackout

My brother worked on the test bed at Rolls Royce and the second time it was bombed he heard the Dornier...

Evacuation to Flitwick

I rushed home and told Mother there were bananas at the village shop so she queued and got us some; my...

Evacuated To Hertfordshire And Wales

I can remember sleeping in a cellar with my family in Islington the night before I was evacuated again,...

WHAT HAPPENED TO TOTAL RECALL 1940 -1945

I was left-handed, which she wouldn't tolerate and she put me in the front row under her eye where she...

Long Hours Working in Munitions

I was 16 and living in Appley Bridge when the war started I was one of eight children our dad worked at...

Merry Christmas to you too Adolf

I remember my father driving with my mother and I through the streets of Manchester past the White City...

A Schoolboys Wartime Memories

That was until the little lad went out with my uncle to milk the cow that they kept for their own use,...

France Has Fallen!

My Mother had phlebitis and thrombosis and my sister, rheumatic fever, so I was left at eleven years old to...

MEMORIES OF THE MARTIN FAMILY

Our family lived five minutes walk from Hornchurch Aerodrome Spitfire Station 65sqd... In spite of all the...

Shoot Up

I had my sixth birthday during the Battle of Britain and the corner of kent where we lived, between...

Narrow Escape

At that time we lived in what was then a small village called West Ewell, near Epsom, Surrey and the German...

Eileen Sutton's WW2 Peoples War Story

Eddy was in the Army, Vicky in the Royal Navy, my sister Gladys was in the WAAF's... I do not remember...

Childhood Memories of Norwich

In Air Raid number 21 on Norwich on April 29 1941 a bomb was dropped on Colmans Works in King Street... We...

Wartime Neighbours

I was the twenty three year old wife of Captain Denis Komlosy and mother of our young family living in...

Railway accident in Guernsey

Simultaneously and moving quite quickly was a German lorry packed with railway lines... The lorry, on...

The Start for Me

I can remember my parents listening to a solemn radio broadcast and my mother errupting into panic and...

The Messenger Service in Nailsworth

I was living in Nailsworth at the time and along with my younger brother I joined the Messenger Service and...

A Kent Village At War

My name is Win Crouch, nee Clark, and I spent World War 2 in Staplehurst in Kent. I attach a photograph of...

MEMORIES OF THE MARTIN FAMILY (B)

Our family lived five minutes walk from Hornchurch Aerodrome Spitfire Station 65sqd... In spite of all the...

A Strawberry War

I remember the ‘Ack-Acks’ which were guns used to shoot down German bombers attacking the...