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Our Mother was our saviour

After my parents spoke with different people my brother and I were taken on the liner by my parents, they...

Bananas !

Apparently I was put into a cupboard in my Moses basket when the air-raid siren sounded, and then we were...

"RAGS"

I called him Rags - because he looked a proper ragamuffin!.. All I ever foound of Rags was his ear....

Wartime Memories of Bodmin

I was also stationed at Glyn House, Bodmin, the home of Lady Vivian, which the navy took over for the...

Through the eyes of an 11 year old

My experience as an 11-12 year old child during the war years living in Woodsite, Aberdeen. We used to...

Orissa, India

My lasting Memory of World War II is………………it was 1942, August for the...

saved by the ditch

When the bombing started my aunt in Denmead suggested to my mother that it might be wise to move out to the...

Hay rick air raid shelter.

Farmer Longland had built two traditional hay ricks placing them end to end... Having made the entrance the...

Memories after Dunkirk as a six year old

Continuing my last entry

Memories of 1940

A searchlight battery division was stationed and we could see planes in the beams. Two land mines dropped...

Let Them Eat Cake

I led a privileged life life during the War when I went to a fee paying school, St. Christopher's in...

Football - unexploded bomb !!!

Because all the sporty young teachers had been sent off to the war, supervision and sports education was...

My Mother wouldn't have that!

I lived in Nottingham, and we had some industries that the Germans’ would have liked to have put out...

Did the punishment fit the crime?

During the early part of the Second World War, gas masks were issued to the public in case gas was used, as...

DANGLING ON A ROPE

My school was evacuated from Newcastle to Kendal and took over a Country Hotel where we lived, and had...

A Wartime Coincidence

But we didn't go hungry - as Gran ran the boarding house she got extra rations; we had an apple tree,...

A Contribution for Peace

In civillian life the Germans had been carpenters, ordinary working class folk who had been drafted into...

Hurtle Hill Farm

My father ran Hurtle Hill Farm and as a small boy I can remember Austrians, Italians and Germans coming to...

Childhood paintings of ‘The War Savings Campaign’ by Norman Harper 1/3

Childhood paintings of ‘The War Savings Campaign’ by Norman Harper 1/3. It was stimulated by...

Dig for Victory - Scottish Gardens and Allotments Society

At the beginning of the war I was registered as a botanist at Edinburgh Botanic Gardens. Ground was dug up...

Close encounter with a Junkers 88

Another day I was doing my paper round, I must have been about 14, in Valance Road, Hove... There was a...

Grandad's War on the Farm - part 2

I was six years old in 1943 and staying with my Grandad and Grandma at their farm, Rectory Farm, Upper...

Grandad's War on the Farm - part 1

I was six years old in 1943 and staying with my grandad and grandma at their farm, Rectory Farm, Upper...

St Dennis and Goss Moor - Salvage.

St Dennis and Goss Moor - Salvage... It is an extract from a book he wrote in 2004 called 'St Dennis...

Loss and Forgiveness

The pilot tried to crash land in a park opposite a house where my aunt and uncle lived with their two...