We were asked to make Flags of the Allies.I was the only one in the School whose Father was in the Belgian...
I was evacuated to Walton, Cumbria the day after war broke out at 15 years old... I was evacuated for 6...
I was a primary school teacher in Warwickshire. During an air raid the children would shelter under the...
Once the war had finished, and David was around 7, we were finally be able to have bananas again... As he...
I remember my dad and some neighbours built an 'Anderson Shelter' in the back garden, but we...
When the war started in 1939, Alan was seven years old... Alan had two brothers and a sister....
At this time the Germans were really hungry, they were really starving and unfortunately Auntie's three...
I was in a family of seven and we used to have a Morrison shelter in our house, it was really just...
My father once told me how he used to find his way around Spalding using names of pubs during the war. He...
My memories of the Second World War are the VE day and VJ day street parties in Oakland Ave, Long Eaton....
1000 bomber raids on Germany. My story attempts to convey the lasting impression on a 5 year old boy and on...
I remember also queuing for 2 onions and my son took them to the pig bins not realising how precious they...
I was going to my friend's house for tea, there anti air raid guns at the top of Hogg Lane and as...
Sleeping School! by Helen Young. It was a case of being disturbed every night and going down three sets of...
I can't remeber very much, but our London house was bombed when I was little, aged 8. I was evacuated...
My lasting Memory of World War II is………………living in the Ellenbrook Road...
My parents packed up and moved to the little villages, because they thought Bombay would be bombed... They...
We used to have to take these masks to school every day, they folded up and fitted into small boxes. One...
On VJDay a party was planned for children at the local infant/junior school in Perivale, near Wembley....
I was born in Birmingham in 1938 My earliest memory is of going round the garden with a basket, collecting...
We all went out to a park in Enniskillen and I think we must have eaten the Laburnum Tree with its little...
I remember my mother telling me that when I was a baby she always put me out in my pram underneath an...