I had volunteered to be in the R.A.F. The first plane that I flew was a Tiger Moth at Manchester Airport. I...
In 1940 I was at junior school in Ashford by the railway station one afternoon when there came a very loud...
My Father and Brother-in-law were very serious men in all ways until one evening word went round that the...
We were nearly bombed out three times; Once we were in the passage, and the windows blew out, the door blew...
This is a story about the adventures we had as Land Girls in the Land Army -- looking after the fields...
Most of the shrapnel we collected was from British shells that were fired by anti-aircraft guns and then...
It was the local window cleaner and his barrow consisted of a wooden box on two bicycle wheels, to carry...
The following story was given by Sylvia Parkinson at the Dover Castle Party to commemorate the 60th...
Our head teacher, miss Chesterfield told us in assembly one morning that we were to have a visit from a...
Eventually we found his mother and a baby had been evacuated to a village not far from ours in Somerset, so...
My reasearch has very kindly been given to me by a very friendly neighbour in her 70's, She sed "i...
When the war started I was a little girl aged three, but can recall when at school ,if the siren sounded...
They took airmen in the boarding house and Dutch sailors in the hotel. Before the airmen/forces were...
My mother would put potatoes in the oven early evening, then when the siren sounded would wrap me in an...
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I can remember lying on a mattress in my Grandmothers room. My mum threw water on it, which wasn't...
A close friend of the family, allowed my Mum and Aunt with her three children, myself and two Sisters the...
One evening, in 1942, my mum and I were trying to cross Oxford Road, Manchester, whilst coming from my...
I was 6 yrs old when war broke out, my father was Joseph Knowles and he worked at the brick works... Living...
My name is William Raymond Pope... I lived at 9 Kimberly Gardens, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne....
Early in the war the boy next door had been killed and his family had learnt by telegram....
My history of the WW2 — MargaretThomas I was in Erith Baptist Chapel when war was declared from the...