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About the Army

When the War broke out I was called up for Army, but a large farmer, called me for a tractor driver. 5...

A Wartime Christmas Present

We were not allowed to go anywhere without our gas masks, which hung around our necks in square cardboard...

Toilet Rolls

Our family at our end of the village knew what had happened to rhe hotel/pub before any of our neighbours,...

Broughton Hall Goes To Pantasaph

The teachers and pupils were very pleased to be going back to lovely Broughton Hall....

Free Eggs!!!

He and other lads from his school used to chase the buzz bombs on their pushbikes to collect the shrapnel....

A boy when the war started, a man when it ended

Small Recollections of a Wychbold Girl

My aunt Ada Vine used to work at Austin's and I remember going to see her at work and watching them...

The Sunken Shed

I don't remember too much about the war as we weren't bombed in Stevenage but I remember watching...

School Evacuation

In 1938 Dulwich College Prep School evacuated to Cranbrook Kent in huts... The boys who went by train had...

The Shrapnel Took All His Clothes In Romney Marsh

My Mum and Dad lived at Hilders Bungalow, Redding Street on the Appledore Road out of Tenterden. Dad was in...

Knock Knock...Who's there?

The reason was she feared it was a German officer power trooper. Five years after the war had ended my...

School Shifts

I lived in the suburbs of London, in Middlesex. People used to like to call us Londoners but we refused to...

Being Evacuated to Polgooth

My mother, brother and I were privately evacuated to some members of my father's family in August 1939,...

Child's evacuation memories

When war first broke out the reason why Gwen was evacuated was because her auntie told her mam to send her...

The Oil Drums

My brother Richard, was in the Air Force. My other brother, Roger, worked at Rolls-Royce, then got called...

FROM "PINS AND ELEPHANTS" TO THE WARDS

At the outbreak of WWII I was working as a shopping assistant at Brown's General Store in Wykeham, near...

Raymond & Bobby

The two boys were brothers, Raymond & Bobby, five and six and a half respectively... The boys'...

Telegram, Church and Eggs, my wartime memories

I can remember my Mam crying because she hadn't had a telegram from my brother because he was in the...

The Awakening

I saw all the stars and feeling very spiritual, and at the same time saw Lancaster bombers going out, and...

Collecting Conkers under fire

VE Day Dance in Parker's Piece

I also remember the parties we had on VE and VJ days — I remember I was working at Mitcham's at...

Christmas With The Enemy

One Christmas Sunday they invited German POWs to our chapel. They were Lutherens and had been going into...

Milking and Tractor-Driving

A I joined the women's Land Army. Q What sorts of jobs did you do in the Land Army....

My Little Bit

When I joined the W.A.A.F. in 1943, I couldn't understand why my country needed me; five feet 2 inches,...

Breakout of War

My home was Gosport, but I was living with Gran at that time... They started having what they called...

dad's war

Later in the War, Dad was attached to a Canadian Unit in the south who went over on the Normandy...