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Teenage Memories

The year is 1939, the outbreak of W.W.2 in September and I was living in a little two bedroom cottage in...

Knickers!

My grandmother, in her late seventies, was keen to do something for the War effort, so she offered to wash...

Life in World War II

When we got to Leicster, we went to the Odeon cinema and I was sitting in the front row with my mother...

Memories from Southwick, West Sussex 1940-42

I lived near St. Michael's Church in Southwick... Along with many others I was packed and ready to be...

Tales from the Smugglers Restaurant in Sompting

My story ends when in the summer of 1946 we moved from the restaurant to another house in Sompting....

Memories of WWII — John Arthur Coomber

Later I watched our fighter planes tip the wings of the doddlebugs, so that they then flew in an easterly...

A Fragment of Memory

I came to England from Vienna on the “KinderTransport just after my ninth birthday. We left Vienna...

An Isle of Mann Schoolboy in Wartime

By Eric Coles Recorded by Pamela Brown I was a schoolboy from 1939 to 1943 when I went to Manchester...

The ammunition ship that blew up in Liverpool.

Firebombs went up on St Sylvester's School and a little lad aged about four or five years of age ran...

A Childhood Prank

Now the convoys had jeeps and armoured cars and everything and they were going where they liked and they...

Scooter v. Stuka

I was going towards home on my scooter at crossroads on Park Road in Cford when I suddenly heard, then saw,...

Bomb drops on school Rushden, Northants

Bomb drops on Alfred St. School, Rushden , Northants. The Queen Victoria Hotel was hit, some cottages in...

Reigate Youngster Memories

During the latter part of the war, my grandparents received food parcels from Canadian relatives. When he...

doodlebug "thats not cricket".

Suddenly the Doodlebug coughed back into life, levelled out and chugged its way across the Crooked Billet...

Schooling ended by the German Occupation of Guernsey

Martha Martel interviewed by Lynne Ashton of the Guernsey Museum. Yes, my father and mother took us up to...

A Child's Memories

He was saved by the air raid wardens pulling him into their shelter The pilot was machine gunning the...

A Doodlebug for Christmas

Such was my fascination with the doodlebugs that on Christmas Day of 1944, Barbara, my eldest sister,...

VE Day

Down the centre of the road, near Hill Brow, was a long row of tables and chairs. men, women and children...

Hull child`s view 2

Ma duly arrived dressed in her best Mrs Miniver style complete with fox fur.This fur which I think was a...

MEMORIES OF LIBERATION

I will always remember Liberation Day and the days immediately after - the sight of the allied warships...

Evacuation (to Barnack).

I was driving through Barnack 40 years later and we found the house and knocked on the door and the lady...

V.E.DAY

My husband worked at the tyneside Foundry, I stayed at home and looked after my two girls, although both my...

One Family's Experience of the Whitehall Cinema Bombing

My older brother had arrived home from Reigate, to find the town bombed and Captain Greenwood standing by...

A Wartime Italian in London

The local police worked hard with the Home Office to have him freed, but due to the harsh conditions and...

My World War Two Memories

I can remember there being barrels on the footpath down Nottingham Road and when it was a bright night...

Interview with Madge Britain

I had tow uncles who were in the army — my father's brother Uncle Sammy who was a regular soldier...