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Army Lorries in Shipley, Yorks.

At one stage of the war, probably 1943 or 1944, all the streets where we lived were full of parked army...

The Loneliness of an Evacuee

Beryl Sebire interviewed by Matt Harvey, Social History Officer, Guernsey Museum. Beryl Sebire. no, no...

war time kids

Eldest brother was in the R.A.F. Eldest sister was working in a munitions factory... My brother and I were...

my evacuation experiences

My sister and brother also came to Wisbeach which was exciting... When the war in Europe ended I returned...

First Air Raid

Dad was a plumber, and had been required to work at our local boat yard, where the Government were...

My Evacuation

My sister Mavis and I were evacuated to Wales from 1939 to 1944... I never had chance to return, but I made...

Beaver Rd School

The Germans came over and were dropping bombs all over Ashford, and at school we were all sent down to the...

Following General Macarther with an American puppy

Above it All

When I joined Southampton Girls Grammar School at the age of fifteen, they had been evacuated to...

Memories of a Young Lads War

As a young child I can remember my mother taking me to the back door of our council house on an estate...

The crashed house

The bombed house had been neglected and the overgrown garden made a very good place to play, and we called...

The Words that Brought the Country to a Standstill

Albans Catholic High School in Ipswich on behalf of his Grandmother Monica Ogden; and has been added to the...

Seeing The First Doodlebug Over London

I was in bed asleep at the time and was then quite used to the sound of anti-aircraft guns, of enemy planes...

Return to Guernsey from Bradford

My Dad had a home all ready for us at "Waverley", Les Amballes and my Gran Carre was there waiting...

The De Havilland Bombing and other memories

Before the war when Hitler started on the Jews and the children those who had money would send their...

A toddler remembers being deported from Guernsey to Biberach

Jill Chubb interviewed at Guernsey Museum, by Becky Kendall of 大象传媒 Radio Guernsey 12/2/2005, and recorded...

Memories

1 Went to Town Lane Infant School in 1942 - 1947. collected and fitted with gas masks from corrugated...

a missed childhood

He left 5 children when war was declared my mother let my older sister myself and my younger brother be...

Life As An Evacuee

Having spent three years in Oxford and then returned to Dagenham we were sent off to Leamington Spa where...

Iron Teeth

I used to cycle to various dances around Wolverhampton. My brother tried to make some gravy once but he...

School Days during WW2.

As children, we thought it was great, as all the schools were closed. I wondered if the headmaster was in...

A Sad Incident

One incident about the war that I remember particularly well is an unpleasant event that occurred in Lumb...

My Mum's War

When an incendiary bomb went off in the entry at the rear of our house, my father in his eagerness threw...

Evacuation Salford to Haslingden

I didn't quite know what to do next as no one had told me of this eventuallity, time went by and the...

A Childs View

When the war broke out I was only three鈥ut I can remember standing on my front doorstep watching the...

My excuse for being late to school

I was an only child and when the war started my father, William Jones, who was a carpenter and a shop...