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The News of my Father

My Mother and Grandma must have been telling us some acceptable story…my Granddad said “Maggie...

Evacuees and bombings

Children living in an area that was likely to be bombed were evacuated to a safer area and they were known...

The evacuation of schoolchildren from Guernsey

I left school at thirteen and I went to work for the Star, the Guernsey Star, a newspaper, and I started...

General memories amongst one family

My father was in the army in Italy... My stepdad was one of the first on the beaches at Dunkirk, he was...

HITLER IS COMING TO KENWICK HALL

Towards the end of the war, as a 5 year old child, I remember waking up one morning and looking out of...

Born in a Church - Protected by Angels?

When my mum was pregnant with me during the war, she went to see the priest at her local church in St...

Shirley Brightiff and War Time Games

I attended St Johns’ Primary School in Redhill, Surrey during the war... Do you know ‘Ten Green...

Bristol Schoolboy at war

If an air raid siren went I had to dash out of lessons and close them and then all the pupils and...

Lancastria, Lacock, Bath

Fred buried the Lacock Abbey Charter to keep it safe during the war, it was recovered in good condition and...

Evacuated to Colchester

I was evacuated to Colchester during the war and at my school we had a shelter that we would go to when...

Evacuee's journey

We left Headcorn station at 7.0am after leaving Rolvenden just after 6.0am... We stayed on the train all...

More than enough sand

During WW2 my mother served in the National Fire Service at Lowestoft, and my father in the RAF, finnishing...

Evacuation

We went to the Town Hall at Salford and were told that we were to leave Pendleton Station with some other...

Thanks on a Shovel

We lived near the harbour in Folkestone -- I was about twelve at the time. I always remember how my father...

Memories of war-time Grangemouth

I remember air raids and a couple of bombs falling on Grangemouth....

Early morning bath

Some of the roof had slid sideways and I remember the checked curtains in the bathroom were blown out and...

Growing up in Horsley during the war

Two weeks later I had left school and had joined a local valve maker called Newman Hender and Co. We made a...

Bye Bye Sweets!

Where did you live during WW2 and was it bombed. I lived in Bedford and it was bombed....

A child's memories

I was three when Wolverhampton's only bomb fell It was aimed at the Royal School but missed, falling a...

My Grandad Life as a Young Boy Through The War

My Grandad was born in 1936 and linved as a young boy through the war... The German bombing planes had to...

Escapes in War

I was in the garden with my daughter in her pram when the Doodle Bugs came over. My cousin was in Palestine...

My years as an evacuee

I lived in South London. My sister and I were evacuated to a small village in Devon....

The capture of a German Pilot

One day while ploughing a field there was an airaid,this was a frequent event as Flamstead was near to the...

A Near Miss

Home Guard, on behalf of Eddie Allen and has been added to the site with Mr. Allen's...

I want one!

It was like a table tennis bat with a chicken on it, with a string through a hole and a wooden ball...

GI Kindness

A disused railway ran past the back garden of our house from Shrewsbury out into Wales, near Oswestry,...