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memories of a child in world war 2

When I was about 10 years old my father had a 48 hour pass and he arranged for my sister and I...

flo oakley story

flo oakley story...

"Cats Away!"

"Cats Away! During the dark nights, I remember that my Father and I would sometimes sit very still and...

COVENTRY BOMBED

One night during the war when I was about three the constant roar of aircraft going over awoke both my mum...

Early Memories of the War in Hull

I was ten years old on the 4th September 1939 and I remember the Sirens sounding in Hull for the first time...

Waiting at the station, summer 1941

To read the story of the Rudhall family and their lives in wartime Birmingham and how they would regularly...

Father's Words

My name is Lorraine Cox, and my Father, Robert Butroy fought in the WW2, and his father fought in WW1, so...

German Measles!

He said she had a case of German measles whereupon I promptly fainted! It was only many years later that my...

Map Case

We were going on an exercise leaving Southend-On-Sea and the Officer in charge had to turn back because he...

Rural Shropshire In Wartime

As children my wife and I lived in rural Shropshire — what is now Telford. The only worthwhile target...

Postcard help

I have in my posession a wallet with some picture postcards that my Grandfather took from the body of a...

B17 Road Runner

I was approximately 6 years old when my younger brother and I were walking around the airfield as we lived...

Evacuees

When I was a child we had seen a family of evacuees out on the street... The really sad thing was the...

Living with the Germans - Tanks

I also remember as a child playing in the yard, and I heard what I thought was a low-flying aircraft, and I...

Bombing in Truro

I was coming home from night school in Lemon Street and as I got opposite the railway station a German...

Unofficial stripes

Collected at the Help the Aged coffee room in Cambridge, by Philippa Geering. I must have been talking to...

Mickey Mouse Gas Mask

My brother, who would only have been about two at the time, got a Mickey Mouse gas mask whereas I had to...

my father refused to leave his house

During another raid, a series of incendiary bombs were dropped... The road was evacuated but my father...

Working with evacuees in Rhyl

William and John Jones’ home....

Meeting the evacuees

I was living in Hardingstone during the Second World War and we had two evacuees from London that came to...

Good times and bad in Bemerton

I grew up in Bemerton where I lived with my parents, brother and many sisters... I had an American...

an evacuee's memories

'In 1944 I was evacuated from London to Wheatly, Yorkshire... We had marmite sandwiches which we hated...

Hidden Depths

My father was born in Halewood, Liverpool, he was in the Royal Navy on the Russian runs... When he came...

Air Raid Precautions

The rule was if you were travelling between home and school and the siren sounded - if you were nearer home...

Spud Picking

I was a pupil at old Duston COE school in Northamptonshire and as pupils the older pupils went potato...

Our evacuee

And her sisters brought her and she sat down on the doorstep and cried for ages... This was a Sharperton,...