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Childhood War Memories

I was living in London during the war with my grandmother and remember walking home through the bombing to...

A Brief Anecdote from the War Years

A friend George Hurst, worked at the Stanley Abattoirr, Liverpool... This was used as a substitute for...

memories of an evacuee

In they came, Mr and Mrs Tall, quite small really, but formidable to this tiny underfed scraggy kid. They...

It wasn't to be

I was stationed in Chick ford Priory in Bedford, for the Royal Air Force... Our eyes were still glued to...

The Shock

We would be seventeen years in 1942 when my friend and I, with other Air Rangers attended a special evening...

Thankyou.

The postman delivered a little box: Inside was my Dad's medal — The Defence Medal He kept it...

Belsen and the Daily Mirror

When I opened it up I saw all the pictures of Belsen and as a child I was suddenly faced with the...

Dog in a blanket

The neighbours worried that because of the blackout that it would be easier for the enemy to spot the dog...

V.E Recollections in Herefordshire.

My first and only real recollection of the war was when I was 4 years old and it was the V.E Day...

Travelling on a troop ship

MR. M.J. PEREZ'S STORY I was brought up in Cairo in Egypt... I was abroad in Egypt till 1944 in Cairo....

Evacuation Cake

Because of rationing she had a recipe for a cake using liquid paraffin instead of butter or margarine. As a...

D DAY PREPARATIONS - convoy, "so many ships"

His story was given to the Trebah Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. The...

Excerpts from "Leap like the Deer"

During the War my mother,Olivia, volunteered to drive a van to take Cheddar Cheese to the army camps and...

HIDING YOUR LIGHT UNDER A BUSH

Betty from York Road remembers as a child going out to Rathcoole to live with her grandmother. Her uncle...

Dad's War

He would arrive home on leave with an ammunition box full of mussels collected from the rocks and sometimes...

A Terrible Time

When the war first broke out I got evacuated with the kids to Wales, Bangor in Wales, but I only stayed for...

Health

We were before the National Health Service so it was a great struggle for my parents to put in for the...

A WAAF's tale

My aunt Norma grew up in Sheffield. It was not diagnosed until she had passed it on to her younger sister...

Down on er' farm, eh!

My dad used to buy produce from other farmers in Rich borough etc and went out even when bombs were...

Hosting Evacuees and American Soldiers in Nottingham

My Dad was too old to go in the forces, but my Mum hosted evacuee children, as well as American soldiers......

Happy Memories

They used to come to my house and the children would say "Tell us about when you were a little...

Memories of WW2

I asked my grandma where she lived in World War 2 and she said that she lived in Mears Ashby and it...

Evacuees

One sunny Saturday morning, I was playing in the street with my friends when I saw a lady and a boy older...

Dad's War

He would arrive home on leave with an ammunition box full of mussels collected from the rocks and sometimes...

Hearing War declared

We were quite shocked and of course frightened; especially since what seemed to be only a few minutes after...

How to prevent a chicken courtship

My memory is just after Dunkirk when I was fourteen and I though the best way to cure the school hens of...