As war progressed the Germans launched V1 flying bombs at London. This was one of the signals used to...
Another bomb landed near Silfield Street on Mr and Mrs Bond's land. Some were taken to Tibenham and I...
Granville Davies 4 ME I have recently resumed contact with three of my old school friend - Donald Barton,...
I knew that central London would be the place to see the excitement at its best so, leaving the industry of...
He received a visit from an Austrian Jewess who needed help in getting her younger sister out of Vienna and...
About eight months after we arrived in Leicester, the German's decided to drop land mines, in fact one day we were told not to go to school via our normal route...
Fortunately, although there was no hope of getting the car back on the road, Pat and the Chinese amah she...
I don't remember much of the journey but we endedup in the village of Treffnant in Denbighshire and...
They were Mr. & Mrs. Parsons and I well remember their beautiful thatched cottage. They also arranged a...
As always we had put on our nightclothes and gone to bed on the bunks that lined the cramped, smelly dugout...
In 1939 my family lived in Grimsby House, East Hill Estate, Wandsworth, London. At this school I later sat...
In far off lands, there side by side The Kaisers armies they defied Before they'd yield, they nobly...
There was a General Election and Grandad's Uncle, Norman Dodds, was made a Member of Parliament for the...
It was generally assumed that the Germans were attempting to bomb the Stockport railway viaduct, which was...
Amid the whirlwind of destruction and violent death, the yapping of a lonesome, frightened canine mingles...
The wide road which was like the Mall in London and which led directly towards the Victoria Memorial, one...
The Home Front My dad Archie served in the Home Guard and was on duty in the Castlewellan area when Belfast...
We got quite a lot of close bombing in Birmingham, because at the bottom of the road where I lived was...
Dad in the mean time had joined the NFS having been released from the obligation of Guerilla Warfare based...
Other Grey/Blue lorries transported extremely large "Gas Bottles" that the local kids always...
Also in 1943, all the Jewish young boys, like myself, had to go in a bigger boys’ cottage called...
My 3 brothers Dudley, Dennis and Kenneth were all in the forces, Dudley and Dennis in the Army and Kenneth...
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