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A Teenager's War

In 1944, 61 years ago, I was a teenaged boarder at Launceston College. It was only much later that we...

Two lemons and Five lumps of Sugar

In 1939 my mother, Marjorie Prior, a 17 year old student travelled to France to enjoy her "gap...

My Holiday in Torquay (P.M.)

My aunt and uncle had friends in Torquay. Five of us went, Mum, Grandad, Aunt, Uncle and myself. In Torquay...

I was saved from dying over Berlin.

I grew up as a five year old expecting to die over Berlin in a Lancaster bomb. I grew up on the...

measles?

He and Miss Evans had an animated discussion about my yellow eyes and decided that I must go home.There for...

GI Blues

This is a story about my aunt who married an American during the War. The promised acres of land turned out...

The Day War Broke Out

So my mother Ethel, my sister Kathleen and I all sat round the wireless in the living room. It was 大象传媒 Home...

My Grandparents' Love Letters

The letters speak frankly of hopes, dreams, fears, desires, world events, oil lamps, billets, pilot-less...

Gretna Bomb 1941

In 1941 a car light was left on during the black outs and a plane came over and dropped a bomb on...

Birthday Memories

Shortly before tea the air raid siren sounded and my mother dropped the tea-caddy and shepherded the...

PHYL SHAW'S WAR EXPERIENCES

This meant that on those days I had travelled up to Millbank, London SW1, done a full day's work,...

Air Raid Shelters

My main memories of the war are as a schoolgirl in West Wickham, Kent. This story was told during story...

'My Brother's 14th Birthday

War started on my eldest brother's 14th birthday... We were evacuated to Wakefield in 1941 as my father...

Doll's war years

Doll was twelve years old when she was evacuated to Norfolk with her sister... Whenever a bomb came down...

Wartime Memories Pt7

I was in one Christmas show in Bedford as a Christmas Tree fairy with six or eight other little girls. He...

School Days.

Liberty vests, woollen stockings, doing P.T. in vests and navy knickers... P.T., swimming, art, English,...

My experiences as a nine year old from 1939 to 1945

When warwas declared my Mother and my two younger brothers and myself were next door having a cup of tea...

Based in Egypt During the War

When Montgomery defeated Rommel, the guns were only 20 miles or so to the west of us... One of my most...

Army terror

At that time she was living on a farm at Grove near Canturbury. Close by there was an army base.It was a...

Using your Ration

This is just a remark made made many times over the years by my mother, who spent much of the War as...

Winkie the Blitz Cat

Winkie was a very intelligent family cat - more like a dog really, so my mother says. During the War, my...

Pixie hats in Leyton

I met Mrs Child at a Victory tea dance in Bishops Stortford, Herts. I was an army child, my dad was in...

Maureen Butler playing among flying bombs

It was a flying bomb. We would watch and listen....

My Childhood Memories of 1940

We had a large undertairs cupboard which we used a a shelter when the bombs were dropping. My vivid memory...

We Got the Bomb Instead of Barrow

I remember being very frightened at the age of four when, while staying with my grandparents in Silverdale,...

Through the Hell of Hitler

Many many years ago there was a boy called adolf hitler and he lived in Germany he loved to learn about the...