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Meeting slave workers at the Bean Depot

Apart from that I can't remember much about what we did there, but when we went to the depot, the...

Child in the War

We were between Manchester and Liverpool, which were badly hit. We only had 2 ounces of meat a week, no...

LDV and Morse by Flag

At one time I was asked to train the LDVs signalling by flag, but in Morse, not Semaphore....

My Blitz Life and the Time I was Evacuated Twice.

Here I was faced with constant bombing and noise, praying every night that the bombs wouldn't land on...

Joining Up

I was thrilled to see another "Rookie" and discover we were both going to the same destination Her...

Evacuated to Bangor

We went to the country, to Antrim, and then from Antrim to Bangor. We were out to relatives in Antrim, and...

Promises

It was shortly before German Nazi soldiers pulled the Denmark into the war. Niels Axel Schou J酶rgensen...

The Offley Explosion

In the winter of 1943, my sister and I were invited to a birthday party of a friend who lived in Offley...

City to Countryside - Evacuees in Toft 1939-1945

About 60-65 evacuees from London and one or two from other towns were sent to Toft. Clifford Perry and Ron...

The bombing of St Cuthbert's Church in Brighton

The worse night was when the Germans bombed St Cuthbert's Church, where I used to go to Sunday School.....

Growing up in the war

Dad used to be in the RAF and when he was away my mum use to look after us. I can remember...

Land Girl Ivy

I was a land girl during the war. There was a load of land army girls coming towards me on their bikes....

LAND ARMY - THRASHING DAY

My name is Kathy Faraker and I joined the Land Army when I was 16 years old... Then the Land Army found...

A surprising turn of events on the last day of school...

We'd walk into assembly and where the headmaster, with his greasy hair, was standing. I kicked the...

Past years

Dorris Irene Hart was 18 when the war started... At first Dorris had an Anderson shelter then she had a...

Enemy in the Sky?

We were all playing tag or whatever the popular game of the day was, when the sound of the air-raid sirens...

A Child's Memories

He was by then an Army captain and a member of 17 Advanced Ordnance Depot... Men of the Canadian Army and...

War Memories - Lily Grant

Anyway, the plane flew away towards the beach, I can't remember much more but I think it may have been...

Country life during the war

About two o'clock one morning the sirens sounded.The farmer Frederick Ash informed him that a bomb had...

The Stars Above

I was a pupil at Foust School in Epping Forest and in the school's Army Cadet Force. We were attending...

Love, Learn, and Live

The person that is the alpha and the omega of this very true story is Frank Serama... He said," why the...

Liverpool Bombings

John Goff looks back on the bombing in Liverpool: I was here during the bombing, the air raids were on and...

my experience while serving w.a.a.f.

I was conscripted into the service in 1941 and after weeks of training I WAS transferred to liverpool. the...

The Day The Haystack Caught Fire

I was a small child of around 3 or 4 years old, and near to where I was staying with my mother...

Helpston in Wartime

I lived in a small village in Cambridgeshire called Helpston. At Marholm a nearby village a Wellington...

Gathering Eggs with the Farmer's Wife

Then, in about 1941,we were evacuated with Marlborough Road School Higher Broughton,Salford 7. We went to a...