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Malcolm's Wartime

I was nearly two years old when war was declared.SoI don't really remember ever being shipped off to...

Blackout by Emalyn Barlow (nee Quick)

I was stationed at various places including Cardiff, Birmingham and Swansea. To get home I had to walk...

I'll die in my bed

We were always hungry as food was rationed and Dad used to supplement our diet of meat with rabbits from...

Men and Horses

Posters calling up different categories were posted regularly at the local mairie,. Slowly the men vanished...

A Day fruit picking

I remember distinctly how pretty the colour of the aircraft was, the adults were saying it was a Dornier....

Anthea Hammond — Tanks in Cobham

In late May of 1944 I was living in Cobham, Surrey near the Portsmouth Road....

Memories from a schoolgirl during the War years.

I was thirteen years old when War broke out and if the sirens sounded during our lesson time, we had to...

The Day I Bunked Off School

When I was about 11 my mate and I bunked off school and went to Rialto Cinema to see Errol Flynn in...

memories of Dunoon, and Glasgow during the blitz

I was evacuated to Dunoon from Glasgow when I was 13 years old....

Margaret's Story

Margaret had 3 children during the war Wendy, Harry and Lyn... Margaret claims it was very hard living in...

A schoolboy in Stockport by Kenneth Hampson

I was 9 years old when the war started, we lived in Spring Gardens Stockport. In 1943 I saw a large convoy...

Saving Face - the Australian Bush Hat

I was playing indoors wearing an Australian Bush Ranger hat which a neighbour had given me....

Shopping in Bombed Out Birmingham

It was a shock to see the shops that had been bombed out and the dummies hanging out of the windows looking...

Three Times Lucky

In 1940 I was evacuated from London with my brother, his two friends and their two sisters. The next lady...

Our Lucky Escape

In September 1940, we lived in Lawton Crescent, Hucknall... They were Semi-detached, our house and the...

"War saved my teeth"

I remember the bombing of Nottingham, if we looked out of the attic windows we could see the glow in the...

Some Leaves Fell On My Head

On Tuesday October 3rd 1940 I was playing with my brother outside our house when our neighbour Mrs...

My recollections of the war

Which is on the boundary of London so bombing was local... Sometimes when my dad was a bus driver in the of...

Trapped Swans

We had to walk in crocodile down to the Sports Ground and then on to Lovers’ Lane where we sheltered...

Help! Mines! The War Comes To Rosslare

I lived in the very small and remote village of Rosslare on the extreme South East edge of Ireland, fifty...

Cathelene Dike — World War 2 memories.

I was about 20 yrs old living in Newcastle, as I remember well I was the first one to see bombs drop...

Peter Jones' evacuation and celebration

In August 1944 I was evacuated to 5 Westpark Yeovil in Sommerset. I stayed in a large house with five other...

A Bale Out

On one day we were cycling along the road in Earls Colne when all of a sudden I could see a B26...

The BrownBomber

At this time I worked as a delivery boy age 13 ,as was allowed during the war , for a Baker's Company...

The soldier who exposed himself

My mum would have been wondering where I was and then when we were on West Avenue we all saw a soldier...

Recollections of a Child

One night my Dad brought me out of the shelter to see the sky which was red all over due to the...