My brother, William Joseph Gibbs, was a dispatch rider in the Army, in his early twenties... Then his...
The Roberts Family; Wilf, Elva, Elizabeth, Kenneth and Kathleen, are seen, pre-war, soaking up the summer...
During a heavy bombing session over Liverpool, with bombs exploding all around, one fell very close to my...
We were in the army and had been asked by our sargent to travel to the antartic... About 3.00am Rodney...
In our school we lined up in a long line — first person had a dustbin lid and chopper and the second...
Our school, Pentonville Prison, Caledonian Rd and Barnsbury Station all got bombed in one night. We'd...
On Saturday mornings I used to have to get up early and go to the local butcher and queue for non-ration...
We had all just finished our first course and my mother was serving the ice cream out of a large, tall,...
I was 10 when the war broke out, my Dad and 2 brothers went to war and my sister went and worked...
But I do remember living at our home in East Bergholt, 21 miles from the US air base at Wenham and Raydon...
Billy and Stanley - slightly older from North Shields billeted with us determined to give the "grown...
I was 8 years old and living at Garlinge near Margate with my Mum and two brothers. We were evacuated to...
The bomb eventually landed, a few doors down -- number 32 or 34, perhaps? I didn't know how long it was...
I also remember the Army came to take the iron railings from around Queens Park but the park keeper...
In May, 1939, two German girls, aged about 17, came over to spend a short time with us in the sixth form...
We lived in Bourne Ave and then we moved to Greyhound Hill and then Rayleigh Close to a five bedroomed...
The Doodlebug fell a short distance away but I was safe....
I looked after two Jewish boys who were evacuated from Birmingham because Birmingham was being bombed......
My mother, sister, and I followed him and stayed in Ashburton... To think we were all having fun and...
There will be a parcel in the porch of that house, just leave the money under the mat, pick up the parcel...
When the war broke out we were in Dover, and I can remember my father taking me to see the British...
I was 12 years old when the doodle bugs were on their way to London, those bombs that didn't drop on...
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