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9 children, 4 pigs and 40 turkeys at the cottage.

I was 13yrs old when war started, and living in Tottenham, London, helping to look after a sick aunt in...

Waving Dad Goodbye

But similarly, the excitement when we had the telephone calls, we had a telephone in 1940 because my father...

V E Day Memories of Maureen Chapman

In 1945 I was a WRNS Drafting Officer stationed at Portsmouth. My job was to move WRNS around the country...

Sadie evacuated and cooking 'Sadie'.

At the evacuation Daddy insisted that we went away and he found a good friend to have us, a young man who...

Middlesex Childhood Memories (during ww2).

My wife Josephine was born in 1938 in Enfield, Middlesex. She can remember one incident quite clearly -...

"What is war?" A 7 year old boy's question.

Later we had an Andersen shelter, which was sunk into the ground in the garden... I remember when a German...

Hitler coming through the trap door in Ramsgate

Shrapnel wouild be in our garden, and if I looked peaky after digging, I would be given 'Virol'-a...

"Frightening moment", a brush with a Heinkel 111k

Towards the end of 1940, on a sunny afternoon during the school holidays, with my friend Clive Enoch, it...

Bomb hits Jam Barrels, Histon, Cambridge

We lived near Chiver's jam factory and one day a bomb dropped on hundeds of barrels stacked outside the...

My Wartime Experiences 2

Our son was born in 鈥�42 and we lived in Sussex, until the last 15 months of the war when I joined...

War Work

We used to have dances every Saturday night in the old town hall. If you wanted to go to the dances at...

Aspects of evacuation

I had just passed my entrance exam into my new school so really didn't know my fellow evacuees - this...

Rockets, Doodlebugs and Loose teeth - Mitcham 1944

Rockets, Doodlebugs and Loose Teeth 鈥� Mitcham 1944....

The Germans search for Forbidden Radios

Our St Saviour's house had three stories, and we slept in one of the attic bedrooms where we listened...

Getting mumps as a WAAF in Newcastle

As a patient there, the isolation was certainly very effective, for I never saw a sign of any other...

A Schoolboys Wartime Memories 6

I suppose it would be about the time when the allies were building up for the Normandy invasion, virtually...

Evacuation - 1944

In July 1944 I was on a break from my 鈥渆ssential employment鈥� and there was a shortage of adults...

Times Remembered

In the village of ewhurst in surrey I was I known as the Little heathen as I was not christened til after...

balloon

The Balloon Goes Up By George Highmore It was the third of September 1939, and a fine sunny day which would...

From Potters Bar to Liskeard

Later I moved into Liskeard to live with a family and my paternal grandmother went to live in Webbs Hotel....

From Kent to Cardigan

Each class was sent to a different village, one class was in Crymych, one class in Blaenffos and one class...

KriegsGefangenlager

My brother had been shot down over Germany ... two of the crew made it back to England. My mother kept a...

My Evacuation

Later in the day, May and I were taken back to the village of lockeridge to the home of Mr and Mrs...

The Best Gerry Could Do

Mum flew down the passage and picking me up almost threw me into the Morrison indoor shelter, as the...

First day of the war

When the Battle of Britain took place we were able to witness the dog-fights from our garden as our house...

MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR 2.

After the bombs started to fall in Belfast my parents decided that, like a lot of other children, I should...