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Come Into My Mind (poem)

My leg lies on the top of the bank, I glance at it again, My wounds now, have all gone numb, I'm...

The Butler girls

Then Thursday just before the day the Butlers asked me home, so I stayed there for Christmas tide instead...

Bombing of the Boys School

I thought that my late father John Exall's story would be of interest to the readers, these are his own...

Coming Home from Singapore

My father, a soldier in the 2nd battalion the Gordon Highlanders, was posted to Singapore in 1937... We...

The Doodlebug

But one day, as we all came out of the playground at lunchtime the siren in the playground sounded,...

Margaret Warner's Sadness Of War

My mother couldn't get me out of the shelter early because she had a small child who was born during...

Filming in Falmouth

When I was 11, I was chosen together with a girl called Mary Hill, to play the 2 leading parts in a...

A Four Year Old's Memories

The Germans must have been trying to bomb the railway line, but instead they hit the street next to it,...

A School boys wartime memories 3

It was shortly after that there was a lot of activity in the lane with lorries up and down, that was when...

Wartime childhood in Thetford

My two elder brothers managed to get a large map of France and Germany, they fixed it to a wall in the...

A war-time childhood in Fyvie

I clearly remember seeing a parachute in the Fyvie school playground in 1941. My mother was three-quarters...

My wartime memories

It was peaceful until what became known as a Dogfight between Spitfires and German fighters raged overhead...

The fun I had in the war

The aerodrome was then named Nutfield but now is called Redhill, which is in Surrey. When I was about 5 I...

African Artifacts

But at the beginning of the war, the decision was made to clear out the basement of Brighton Museum and...

What I remember about the 2nd World War

After a months training at Pontefract in Yorkshire, I was posted to Rugby in Warwickshire, where I worked...

KEEPING THE BALLOONS FLYING: barrage work

Then we went to Woolwich Arsenal, and then to Portsmouth near where the submarines used to go from. After...

The Disappearing Fried Egg!!

The noise stopped and we looked at one another and my mother grabbed me, threw me through the door into the...

World War 2 family project

Mrs Skinner was not well informed about Dunkirk, The Battle of Britain or The D-Day Landings... The lucky...

The first Day

I was walking with my father Alex Stewart, to attend morning service at the High Church in Dumbarton. This...

My Story As An Evacuee

We found that Mr Tate was in partnership with Mr Lyle's sugar beet factory at Bury St Edmunds....

Secret Signals and Rambling Roses

Immobilised鈥� was the password for the destruction of the Caledon Shipyard, where my three sisters...

"Where's my Orange?"

I had been allowed to go to a friend's house about eight houses from ours, to play in her very large...

Airmen billeted in our house in Liverpool

The Airmen when they arrived were:- George Biddiscombe from Bridgewater, Wally Wallace from Urmston,...

The Plymouth Blitz and purple sided boots

One day we went on a picnic to Dainton Tunel- as we were walking on the road one of the German planes...

The Jersey Evacuation

It would appear that many of us were sent from Jersey to Lancashire prior to the German invasion of the...

I was the first female postie in the war years in Bridgnorth

I used to do Bridgnorth, Alverley, Burworton, quite a few places....