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Shot at in Lostwithiel

I was down on the little green with my younger sister and there was an old gentleman sitting on the seat....

war wound

Norwich at that time had been severly bombed,and at the back of my aunts house were a row of houses that...

Summer 1940

Joyce, Jean, and the Doodlebugs

We played on Earlswood Common, Surrey during our school and war years....

Evacuees amongst the Welsh

The one that got away

I cannot remember how far we were from Barking Station but all I remember was the fact that our carriage...

Childhood Memories

My Mother ran a Cafe and tobacconist on the A1 on the outskirts of Peterborough... My Mother was pegging...

First bomb in the county

But the morning after it dropped….my brother and I used to take a shortcut to the village school...

Evacuation (to Northampton).

My grandmother and brother went with one family, my sister and me with another... One family befriended my...

war wound

Norwich at that time had been severly bombed,and at the back of my aunts house were a row of houses that...

Memories as a child in Mold

But I do remember one night, that a German plane was shot down, and somebody bailed out, and he landed on...

Evacuation and Battle of Britain

A lot of children in Kent were evacuated but I didn't go until 1940 when I was 11 years old, I went...

Childhood Memories

My Mother ran a Cafe and tobacconist on the A1 on the outskirts of Peterborough... My Mother was pegging...

Entertaining Evenings in the country

The army came for us and put us all in a big lorry and took us out to Gilnakirk to a big...

Doodle bug over Bramhall

It must have been around the time of the blitz as I can remember having to make a run for the cupboard...

Saying goodbye at Dunbar station

A snap was taken of me at the station, I can still see Uncle John's face smiling and waving out of the...

Invasion Preparations, June 4/5 1944

We cycled down to a placed called "Daddy Hole Plain" where one has a five mile view across the bay...

From Kings to Cabbages

I first went to Lady Lovels Darney in Brampton House. When she died all of the kids were separated, the...

Memories of a 3year old

While there he seemed to spend most of his time putting out incendiary bombs with a stirrup pump. I...

Disasters in Offley Village

Childhood

I can also remember being carried intothe Anderson Shelter at the bottom of our garden... The awful sound...

Sights Set on ATC

I was at Pershore Senior School and I had joined the ATC... I was very upset because I had loved this way...

Bombs at Langford Common

I was 11 years old when the war started and spent a lot of time with other children playing round my...

VE Day in Caddington

Any family celebrations were subdued by my mother, as her brother was a prisoner of the Japanese and it was...

My Unhappy Evacuation

We went to Hoylake... It was all done through the school, and I was sent to Queens Road, Hoylake....

Then night the Gerries landed in Norton le Moors

In the early hours of one morning during WW2 my mother was woken by my grandmother banging on the door...