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"A Young Boys War"

The London children tended to look down on anyone not from "The Smoke" and at first referred to...

Evacuated to Berney near Strabane

We stood for a long time whilst they decided where best to put us and then it came to our turn and...

War Years 1939/1945: Childhood Memories of Colliers Wood and Somerset

In June 1944 just after the D-Day landings in France the Germans launched an onslaught of flying bombs...

Barbara’s Wartime Memories — St Agnes, Cornwall

At the outbreak of the War I was nine years old and living at Garden Cottage, Goonbell St Agnes, Cornwall,...

Ashborn as an Evacuee - and 50 Years Later

Right opposite our house was the air raid warden's office and they informed my mum that the bomb had...

My Younger Years

When we stayed with Nanna and Bram in Hitchin we would stand in their bedroom looking through the big bay...

Growing up in County Fermanagh during the War Years.

During World War Two Edith Sheridan was a teenager in rural County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland on the...

The Second World War, through the Eyes of an Eleven-Year-Old Boy

Yours sincerely Deborah Devonshire The following is a transcript of a letter from Eric Oliver to the...

Hitchin in the War Years and Immediately Following

The details are remembered by the children of the O'Dell family who lived in Stevenage Road, Hitchin...

Mrs M Farrell's Evacuation Story

We came from Middlesex but because we were living in Wales the Welsh authority had an obligation to educate...

Angel of Mercy-Childhood memories

When I arrived in D Block the war had still another six months left in which to run its course,...

The Mystery Raiders of 1940: Air Raids in Surrey

In wondering why or how the Heinkel came to be flying without companions, I found myself wishing for his...

Evacuation from Bradford

I recall my mum telling Ethel whatever happens we must stay together. Ethel wrote home and mum answered but...

My Early Memories dictated by Graham Johnson

My mum used to give the milkman's horse a carrot or two off dad's allotment. My aunt was working in...

My War Years in Rayleigh

My eldest sister was sent to work in the Pye radio factory in Cambridge and my other sister was sent to...

Born in a Pussers Blanket

I recall the first day-light raid on Portsmouth when we stood watching a ‘dog fight’ overhead...

WWII Childhood Memories of Three Women in Newcastle

On May 4th, 2005, at Newcastle's Mary Magdalene Retirement Community, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Unigroup met with a craft...

Please Take Me Home: Evacuation to Winchester

In this front line city things were getting hotter and hotter, so Mum & Dad decided to move to a...

Smugglers or Spies ?

Then the German tanks invaded Belgium and Holland and broke through the French defences and the British...

Confessions of a Runner

Already, anti- aircraft balloons had appeared being flown from ships in the River Mersey and this was...

A Teenage Evacuee's Story

There were four of us- I was thirteen, Joan was eleven and my two brothers Harry and David were eight and...

Dad's Army - and Family Survival in London and Scotland

It must have been very difficult for them both, as it was for many who experienced the war years, but for...

War for Nita

Children were evacuated to our area from the areas which were thought to be most at risk from the expected...

Evacuation X Three: Chipppenham, Grantham and Gloucestershire

It was following the return from Chippenham that the events relating to the bombing described earlier...

Moving Around

We drove there in the summer of 1940, first to Hassop Hall where we left my 13 year old brother, and then...

World War II Memories

A few months later, my sister and I went to the Alcazar Cinema one evening and I remember the film very...