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The Dutch Children

I have never seen any reference to my story of the Dutch Children in any reference to the War... One could...

A BIRMINGHAM CHILDS WAR MEMORY

Our lives were dominated by gas-masks, air-raid shelters, sand-bags, ration books, black-out. Those people...

War time at Alfred Sutton School

I went to Alfred Sutton Junior school... Me and Peter used to go to Anderson Baptist Church, for sea scouts...

School milk

We were provided with beakers, and the milk was doled out by the teachers... Having been given our beaker...

The spy in the factory

When war first broke out Chris Foulkes, then a young design engineer working on specialised valves for...

Me, my family and the War

I remember my Mum and Dad grabbing a few things, including my little brother and sister and we ran down the...

GOOD NEIGHBOURS IN CAMBRIDGE

My husband and I moved to Akeman Street but he left me with the children. We used to go to Sainsbury's...

Bombs Over Tunbridge Wells

We lived at the end of Mountfield Road in Tunbridge Wells, which backed onto the grounds of Calverley...

My Yorkshire Grandmother

Mary Ann O'Farrell was from Rawdon, Yorkshire. She went to London to work as a nurse... My grandfather,...

War Time in Wales

By the 23rd October 1940, there were 3 more additions to our family and I and 2 older brothers were...

Racism

One of my earliest memories was being told that my father was Polish-Jew and that if Hitler came my dad was...

My Knees Knocked From Fright

At the time of the evacuation of Dunkirk I answered a call to hand out tea and buns at the station to...

Michael's memories of World War Two

Michael's mum used to save things like sugar from the rations so they could make cakes for birthdays...

Making Collars for the Boys

I lived in Bemerton, in No 2 Sidney Cottages, opposite Squarey's house. a unit of the Royal Army...

Music exam cancelled because of German Occupation of Guernsey

We all know what happened at the evacuation, so I won't go into that, but I will just tell you that...

The Egg Hunt By becki Davison

My mother said right you'll have to go to your grandma's at Grangetown and ask her for some eggs as...

Nowhere to go

We were living in Salford, near Manchester, and I was eleven years old... Our uncle was still in the house...

A very Busy Week

Evacuation: Glasgow to Wigtown

We weren't in Wigtown long enough to meet other people, but were happy to return to Glasgow and lived...

Dunkirk survivors

They were hungry and asked us if we had any food, evacuees were given a packet of Digestive Biscuits, a tin...

A young married woman in Rossett

In Rossett, and Wrexham, it was terrible, queuing for your food. I used to take the pram on the train, to...

SMDCV

The Vale School leaves for England before the German Occupation of Guernsey

People by that time had made their mind up whether they were going or they were staying, and the first...

St Austell Bomb and the evacuees

I believe it was late summer in 1939 when the very first batch of evacuees arrived in St Austell railway...

Childhood Paintings of 'The War Savings Campaign' by Norman Harper 3/3

It was stimulated by special national efforts such as War Weapons Weeks and Warships Weeks, exhibitions and...

My Evacuation

We formed at the Lawrence School in Mansford Street, Bethnal Green, and marched to Bethnal Green Station....