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1942

Airfields had been built and there was a battery of Ack-Ack guns in the field behind our houses, leading to...

Afraid to take her clothes off.

The war went on…we had double summertime so it was always light to eleven o'clock and we children...

My Different Memories of the War

I have very different memories of the war as I lived both in Newcastle and in a hamlet on the Yorkshire...

Grandma and Hitler

Grandma lived in Upton Park in London during World War II and my parents were worried that she might not be...

VE Day through the eyes of a child

My father was somewhere in France or Germany and we were living in my grandmother's house in Liverpool...

Secrets and Friendship

Bert Collis — Secrets and friendship There were other stories that could not be told at the time. For...

Coming Home

My Dad, George Darley was 'called up' shortley afterwards, and joined the Army regiment Yorks and...

Close Encounter 2

Shortly after the Olive Road incident, I was again on my way home from the Knoll School, with my best pal...

A Village ARP Warden in Shuttlewood, Derbyshire

Being Bombed - Aged Five

In April 1941 we were bombed, whilst living in a council house on St. Helier Estate, Surrey... Four bombs...

Childhood paintings of ‘The War Savings Campaign’ by Norman Harper 2/3

Childhood paintings of ‘The War Savings Campaign’ by Norman Harper 2/3. It was stimulated by...

Memories of wartime Devon

Child during Bombing Raids in South Devon aged 2 years I grew up in Dawlish in South Devon... The German...

Memories of the Liberation of Guernsey

My most vivid memories and certainly the most happy are of when the British Soldiers landed in Guernsey on...

Childhood memories

5 uncles were in the forces.in Paras,Marines,Engineers,India and Burma and they all came back safely.In...

60 Years Ago!

But soon we were living with food ration books, clothing coupons, Petrol coupons, Gas masks, I.D cards...

Our famous carers

I was seven at the time, my brother only five and when we arrived we were taken to the village hall where...

DAD’S EMBARRASSMENT

Our house had only two bedrooms of which the back room was the only one able to hold two beds, so for...

dunkirk

When they got to the station there was a large number of troops in a cordon around the station , but they...

My mother’s premonition saves our lives!

We were going to do that but on the Friday night Weston had its first raid and on Saturday my mother had...

A REAL WARTIME BABY

I think I had a ‘Mickey Mouse’ gas mask, and I know the baby had one, not a ‘Mickey...

The Stationers

About 1943 the Stationers went home because the bombing of London had mostly stopped. The war in Europe...

At school in Holland Park

I was in primary scghool in Holland Park when a HeinkleIII crashed into Holland Park itself... While all of...

Barbara's Story

My mum was very upset and worried as my eldest brother was in the Regular Army, and he would be going to...

Lights In The Streets Again

My home was in Bromley, apart from twelve months or so in 1939-40 when we stayed with an aunt at Otford,...

Early War Memories

When I was 3 I went to the village school and my mother who was already a time served baker and...

VE Day

It was obvious that rationing would have to continue until Japan was beaten and no-one had any inkling of...