In late Summer 1941 I recall that we kids learnt from my Mother of my Dad's death in a road accident in...
I was not old enough to join the forces at the beginning of the war and being in the same Boy Scout...
I was one of four sons, on a farm called Quarry Farm, which has now been sold for housing, in December...
I can vaguely remember my mother making knickers from the silk parachute acquired from the Junkers 88 plane...
My story is that of a child's observations of war in Portsmouth. I witnessed King Haaken and family...
Then out of the little cramped door thundered about 50 children off each bus. Mam opened the wooden door...
In 1940 the government requisitioned all the halls in the village... The soldiers slept in the various...
I was 5 years old when the war started and i lived in london mith my parents and baby brother teddy ,and...
The surging sea of the infants Has lifted me off my feet, Is bearing me straight to a corner Where wall and...
I remember helping a land girl deliver milk in a pony and trap around Wymondham... We often saw dogfights...
The Priory Boys School received the Hope Catholic Grammar School from Hope Street, Liverpool, close to the...
I first saw 'doodlebugs' come across the Channel to England when we were on holiday at Three Oaks,...
My father was an armature grinder and worked for the railways,, so he had to remain at his post in Kent....
I can remember standing on the station with all the other kids clutching a carrier bag containing a...
Edna was born in 1937 in the seaside village of Birchington and has lived there all her life, apart from...
We were so hungry we broke open cupboards and stole corned beef and tinned fruit... In the morning we stole...
My first day of tuition was frightening, the crane was so high, the ladder so unapproachable and the cabin...
Due to this my dad was asked to do a civilian job and guard the electricity station on Kirkstall Road... If...
As a senior boy I had more freedom and was allowed entry to places in Westminster, and was able to watch...
I joined the Women's Land Army girls at Homerton College in 1941 and my sister joined as well - I was...
Now he took turns with the other men at the factory to stay the night thee to watch out for Incendiaries...
Barry then travelled with his father, who worked for the Ministry of Works building army camps in Bletchley...
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