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Coventry Evacuee

I called them Auntie and Uncle Draper... My only real ‘war’ memories are of being lifted high...

Evacuee Childhood: Put on a Coach from Hastings

My Mum and Dad had been working as a couple in a public house in North Finchley and after the funeral, my...

My Path to a Battle: Childhood Memories of RAF Kenley

In fact it started a few days after Charles landed at Croydon, for with estimates running at over 100,000...

Wartime Experiences: From the Suburbs of Sheffield to Bradwell

Until September 1939 I had lived in a pleasant tree lined road in the suburbs of Sheffield and had many...

From the Workhouse to St Nazaire

I do remember that towards the end of the war, by which time I would be aged twelve or thirteen I was...

EVACUATION

The Church hall was to be the reception point, to feed and sleep the evacuees during the two or three days...

Wartime Experiences: From the Suburbs of Sheffield to Bradwell

Until September 1939 I had lived in a pleasant tree lined road in the suburbs of Sheffield and had many...

First Memories

Every month, same day, same time, we took the bus from Islington to the West End to see my Uncle...

Schooldays in Suffolk

For most of the time these two "bases" had B 24 Liberator bombers flying from them though earlier...

Memories of a School Boy from World War II

This had searchlights, guns, nissan huts, and military personnel stationed there with sentries on the gates...

Memories from Members of Astley Lunch Club, Worcestershire.

THESE ARE STORIES FROM PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GREAT WITLEY, WORC; MALVERN; LONDON, CARDIFF; LANCASTER,...

WW2- I Remember It Well

One night the Margarine factory at Mitcham was hit and although I don't recall many casualties, our...

A Wartime Childhood

Left on her own in an uncertain London my mother returned to her Darlington home and lived until 1947 with...

WW2 Experiences of an Evacuee Chapter 1

Anyone not already called up for active service joined various civil defence organisations, such as the Air...

Devonport Blitz

In 1939 the Army wanted our School for a Hospital, so we shared a School in King Street in Devonport with...

When Were You An Evacuee?

The shop opposite us was taken over by the ARP.It was sand-bagged up and through a small door there buzzed...

From Pillar to Post - Part 3

Notice boards informed inmates of areas in the city badly blitzed and it was no surprise to mum when her...

Memories of Wartime Mile Cross

My name is Vic Elvin and I live on the Mile Cross estate in Norwich and was a pupil at the Norman...

War Time in South Woodham Ferrers

This, Dad was obliged to do to save the orchard being uprooted to form one big field with adjoining...

Lambert's War

My father served in the 8th Army REME and his rank as shown on his release certificate, was W/WOI I...

A Stenhousemuir Schoolboy's Memories of the War

They had been dropped near Stirling, one of them landing on the pitch of Stirling Albion Football Club. We...

My Longing For Portsmouth

Then one evening in June we had just returned from work,and the sirens sounded, and my father, my sister...

Growing up in WW2: Evacuee in Sulgrave

My carers had three children, Mary the eldest, Diana she was my age Ten and David, twelve he never seemed...

A Childhood of War

My earliest memories were of being evacuated, but I was lucky: my father as a schoolteacher at White Lion...

Mrs P.Evacuation memories and home: From Charlton to Huddersfield

It was 1939 when we had to wear terryfying gas masks and caused me a life long fear of suffocation, and, as...

Memories of WW2 on a Farm Near Pulborough

Close to us we had a Searchlight Battery so often at night we could see the searchlights 'playing'...