Mr Louis East, Mr Melvin Buttress uncle, went to war and joined the Royal Navy to fight for his country...
One neighbour dragged out a piano and played it, unfortunately he got rather merry and sang First World War...
I come from a big family — being one of twelve children — so for a child of that age in this...
My grandfather Epaphroditus Crooks was a joiner and wheelwright in Holbrook. It was crowded with so many...
I had my little boy, and my husband was working at Park Hall camp in Shropshire... So then he worked at the...
My first recollection as a very young child was a piercing wailing noise which I later learned was a siren....
Whenever I walk or drive along the sea front at Southsea, or look at it from the cross channel ferry, and...
But a mother and daughter came up from Hornchurch in Essex, and they came to Denbigh, to the house, for a...
It landed on the photograph of the fiancée of the girl on the bed next door to me. After that I...
As children we played our usual games like Tig and Skipping while the older people like my mother and our...
My first job was sticking brown paper strips on all the window and helping to make and hang black-out...
We celebrated with the Half-A-Crown reward money we received from the local Bobby. Many items could be...
Three German planes were on their way back from a bombing run on Canterbury, firing as they went. She...
I spent the first two years in Hertfordshire with horrible people who picked on us because we were...
They got chase to the mountains where they hid from the Japanese soldiers that invaded the town Parit and...
The following was told by Eileen Paszczuk to East Ayrshire Library staff at a workshop in Drongan Library...
We were living in Enfield, just outside London, when the war started and the heavy bombing lit up the sky...
We didn't go to school; we used to play down side the River Thames, down an alleyway, me, my brothers...
I was thrilled at the sight of several Clevis Craft speed boats with Vickers machine guns mounted on the...
Mr and Mrs Robert Bignold. We were living Mottingham near Orpington, and we were all collecting wood from a...
My home was in Bromley, apart from twelve months or so in 1939-40 when we stayed with an aunt at Otford,...
I remember going back to school one Monday morning to hear that several pupils had been killed when the...
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