My Father, his sisters and elder brother were left in London. When the lady opened the door her words were...
My gas mask was made to look like Micky Mouse but inside it was clammy and rubbery and the eye pieces used...
I was evacuated with my brother Walter; I was 7, and my sisters Ethel (9), Agnes (11) and Susie (13)....
Of course nell was always anxious for news of Frank, and would stand at the front gate, waiting for the...
One of the first contractors in the area lived next door to our school, so I saw some of the first Fordson...
To get us away from the bombing attacks which were coming more and more frequently around Croydon, our...
All were older than him and his two sisters, Betty and Maggie Harrison, who were about 9 or 10 at the time,...
I then attended the local village school and eventually took the 11+ and gained a place at a grammar school...
A formal letter dated 4.10.41 from A.G.Hard, the Government Representative on Board, states that a...
The bay was where a lot of the action was.People was trying to escape from France ,and the Germans were...
It is impossible for today's generation to imagine how very dark our villages and towns were during the...
The younger evacuees were attending the village school but, as we out numbered the local children, we older...
My father was at Gallipoli in World War One, in the Essex Regiment and he never bore any grudge against...
They had lived in Gosport since 1932 when, just as they were getting married, my paternal grandfather had...
One week after D.Day 1944, the Germans launched the first V-1 鈥淔lying Bomb鈥- nicknamed the...
When the siren went, she used to come to our house because our cellar was bigger- it had an arch over and...
Having ventured upstairs to look out of the front bay window, he reported that the skyline was ablaze on...
These old boys were in fact young boys aged 15 to about 17 and on some Saturdays some of these boys, of...
The next memory is from when I used to sleep with my Older sister who was sixteen or seventeen at the time...
About 10 students turned up and we were in a lounge furnished with 2 settees and easy seats.We were...
She said his name was Vincent George and I argued with her saying 'His name is Christopher'....
When I first came to Britain I couldn't speak any English, but I learned it in no time at my boarding...
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