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HOW THE WAR CHANGED MY LIFE

A great deal of the work was in naval tailors' shops for the sailors coming into Portsmouth. If I`d had...

Air raid shelters

I remember going into a little cupboard under the stairs when the bombing was particularly bad... We took...

Sixteen year-old girl in Bathford 1941

We lived in the village of Bathford, about 4 miles from the city of Bath, on the hill where ammunition was...

Me and Mine - Mitcham

It was called Sherwood Park Infants School. As I was only five when the war broke out, I sometimes cannot...

Hard Times But Good Memories

To my brother and me the sound of the pom pom guns was just as game. I remember my brother collecting...

Memories

' I rember the blackouts, you wernt allowed a light on with out a curtain up to black it out incase it...

Peter Rothschild's reflections on the futility of war

I am Jewish and as I stood there 鈥渞esting on my arms reseved鈥� my thoughts turned to my...

Marching Home Through the Snow

Early in the war in January the Grand Cinema in Kidderminster held a Christmas party for local children. As...

When is a bomb not a bomb?

During the London blitz as a boy of 8 or 9 years I lived in Chingford,Essex,My Aunt and Uncle were living...

A VOICE OF ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THE DEAD

The bomb blew out all our windows and because of that we were evacuated to Winlaton until our house was...

My sad war

I was evacuated to Biggen Hill out to relations, then they started to bomb the airfield so I was sent back...

the brave pilot that gave his life for others

Seconds later I heard the crash as it landed on the railway lines in the cutting close to Gravel Path...

A Miracle

Then she invited them to come for some lunch,as it happend we had our meat ration for the week,a joint of...

Birthday Cakes and an Ice Cream Treat

Somehow we'd always have a birthday cake on our birthdays 鈥� I don't know how my mother did...

Evacuated

The Germans started to bomb Essex so we were then sent to Torquay. Bombing started in Torquay 鈥� the...

John's Storie

John was 3 when the war was declared and was to young to remeber anything about the day war was declared at...

The Courage of the Children

Early in 1941, Miss Emily Wilcox, my 8th grade teacher at Elizabeth Street School in Norwich, Connecticut...

The Journey from Sunday School I will never forget

My friend Jack and I had been to Sunday School and when we got back to my home my mother said "Jack...

Beaulah's War

I was still at School during the War 鈥� Denbigh Road Infant and Junior School One vivid memory I have...

WW2 Wartime Memories

My Dad was posted to India; I went to a deaf school as a border run by the LCC in Anally near...

Queenie Prieto's Story

On the 1st September myself and my 3 brothers Reginald (12), Harry (9) and Eric (7) were taken to a railway...

Wardens

Dad had put bunk beds and seats in to make it more comfy, and Mam always had a bag of food and...

The Sheep's Revenge

We girls had to catch the sheep and put them in the dip dyke... The other girl lost hold of the back...

There is a Santa Claus

However the one instance that I do recall most clearly happened one Christmas, when I went to bed under the...

Junior Red Cross in Cambridge

Apart from learning the basics of nursing, we had the opportunity to help at the Leys School in Cambridge....

5) My first chocolate bar

Whilst staying in Fareham I woke one morning and peered out of the tiny bedroom window. 1 The night I was...