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FLOWERS FROM THE EAST END

Rose and Lily were tucked into the warm double bed and Granny wished them goodnight... That afternoon my...

Evacuee from Lambeth

I along with my sister was evacuated from London in the first wave of children 'sent into the...

It was a long time for some dates: Childhood Memories of Bishop Auckland

My mam said he was abroad and they didn't want the Germans to know where my dad was. We put my bike...

Collaborative Article: Evacuation

RETURN OF THE EVACUEE

I had very little information to go on but I provided the name of the family and the only other fact, there...

Fear and Fun for Children during the War

My brother and I had to go to bed at our usual time and it was horrible down the garden with the...

War Time Childhood in Surbiton

The planks were laid down and a bed made up for my two brothers. My parents decided to send me to Bedford...

A Nine-year-old Contributes to the Defeat of Hitler, in Mansfield

We were hastily lined up and ‘crocodile-walked’ across Nottingham Road now devoid of traffic...

Evacuation to Wales: From London to Treherbert

A Teenager's Memories of Wartime Penang by Cheng Bee Parker

There were in the early occupation days, horrific tales of Japanese cruelty, of rape, which threw all...

Flight from the Japanese Invasion of Singapore

Monday 29th December 1941 - Telegram from Mother in Singapore received in Tonbridge to say her and family...

Wartime Boyhood in Scotland

* 11.05am 3 SEPTEMBER, 1939: straight after Chamberlain's announcement of war the sirens wernt off in...

Wear Street At War

My next encounter with an evacuee was with Florence, who was billeted with my great- aunts in Roddymoor. I...

Halifax Bomber (part 2)

After all these years, it is now April 2005, I can visualise part of the huge four engined Halifax bomber...

We'll Meet Again

I was wretched in my homeland and my heart was heavy, picturing the equally wretched children scattered...

War through the Eyes of a Very Young Child

Cousins got married to soldiers and airmen and, together with a cousin who was the same age as me, I was a...

'Hold her hand and don't let go' by Thomas Rose Pannell

The story of our evacuation I was the oldest of three children born in Manchester to Arthur Pannell, a...

Sussex Evacuees - in Settle, Yorkshire

It seems as yesterday , a grey cheerless March morning, when our school party was taken by coach to the...

Cello in my Cupboard: An Evacuee's Story

Being evacuated was a real eye-opener for all of us snotty-nosed, sharp and inquisitive London kids, the...

My Brother, the Last VC of the European Campaign

They showed resentment that my eldest brother, who was a regular serviceman, was serving in Palestine,...

Good Comes From Evil: Part 1

I spent my early years in care with the Middlesex County Council and lived with 11 other children in...

Triumph Through Adversity

The bombing started in 1940 and my sister and I had a week off from school, half term and we had a...

A Little Girl's War in Guildford: Watching the Bombing, Queues, D-Day Activities

I'm now 70, but still have vivid memory's of those 6 years of my childhood, the German bombers...

A Boy in an Air Raid

In the far corner of the kitchen an incendiary bomb was crackling away showering whitish blue pieces over...

Camlachie to Aberfeldy

We went to the Aberfeldy Academy, all together, the locals in the mornings and the Glasgow vacs in the...

Borland's World War II Part 5

The fishing fleet in Rothesay fished mainly in Loch Fyne for herring, thus reducing the risks of enemy U...