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WRAF-SHRAPNEL IN THE HEAD

After the collapse of the Allied Front in France and Belgium and Holland, the Germans were able to place...

Moving to Whitbourne

After some months the school Authorities decided to concentrate all the children from our school into one...

SOROPTIMIST EFFORTS DURING THE WAR IN MANCHESTER

The Manchester Soroptimists ran a canteen trolley at Central Station and we were recruited to help. The...

Evacuation to Dorset from Croydon

I was taken by car to the Croydon railway station and put on a train. On returning home, my dad met me...

Late nights, early mornings, Italians and rats.

So, eventually I joined the land army with my sister, Ivy. Ivy got the best deal she was sent to Doncaster...

A guernsey Evacuee in Irby,

I was 10yrs 7months old when we were evacuated from Guernsey with the children of St Andrews School during...

Peggy's story

My brother James was about a year younger than me... My brother James and I went ahead and our parents...

Dunkirk, General De Gaulle and The Duchess of Kent

Real Christian Charity

So she put her clothes in a suitcase, locked the door, gave her key to the A.R.P. Warden and caught a train...

Making the most of being single in wartime

Early Days 鈥� with Tiger Moths Timing Trainee Pilots Later Days - Being wooed by future husband in...

VJ Day

Others were making their way home from St. George's Hall in the city centre where they had been...

One Of The Lucky Ones

My mum worked in an egg factory testing eggs, we would sometimes go and watch her.One christmas my mum gave...

The early days of World War 2

Our first shelter was under the stairs, but it was too cramped for four children Also my mum and dad...

VJ Day, the day I met the man with the big feet!

While working at the bank I became friendly with George Bird and his wife Edna... To which Edna replied,...

Everlasting memories of evacuation

We had both passed the prestigious Margaret Bryce scholarship for Blackburne House Girls鈥� High School...

DEVON DELIGHTS

So along with a lot of other sad children we got on the train at Waterloo Station and ended up in Devon,...

Wartime memories of Keighley

One day I was running and I fell over on my ankle, and two boys carried me to the ARP post where...

A Twelve Year Old's War

He, however, landed up in Chedborough, close to us in Clare, where he flew Lancaster bombers in raids over...

1. The invasion has happened.2.Christmas memories.

I lived in a very old house in Hackney, East London with my mother Maud King, sister Maureen King and...

Rosalies Wartime

One day my sister went to empty the dregs of a tea pot down it. There were 13 in the family but...

Bemused and Puzzled

More bewilderment came when the bomb fell on Fleming Mead. Fleming Mead, Mitcham, still there to disappear,...

We had some fun with 'em

I went to Sheffield one day to see if they were alright, and the lady was shouting at Bert to go and...

Wartime Memories

Mrs. Marjorie Smith I was thirteen years old when war broke out and was living in London, so I was...

'Thank Amy for the Biscuits'

Thank Amy for the Biscuits鈥� In the Indian Navy he had danced with pearl decked Maharanis, drunk fine...

A Rabbi's story

During this time I travelled around Europe finding Jewish boys and officiating at weddings, funerals and...

Wartime Experiences

1 1939 as a young boy I liked to walk from our house with the postman up Clopton Road to as far...