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Early years 1939-41

At that time, Broughton aerodrome had a small fighter training unit; when another day raider came over, the...

Life in Britain During the Second World War - Year 9 Project (3)

I was taught how to pack parachutes at 13 M.U. Henlow but I re-mustered and went on an aircraft fitter...

Derek's Evacuation.Part 1

We soon became hungry and keen to find what was in the food parcels.Among the usual sandwiches,was a Mars...

How I Passed an Examination in Art

In the summer of 1940 I was a pupil at Weymouth Grammar School and found myself sitting at one of a row...

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Up the North Sea on a Pleasure Boat - Gravesend's War

We left home very early on Saturday Sept.2nd and boarded a pleasure steamer called ‘The Royal...

Doodlebug on my doorstep: In London

Bombs still dropped with persistent regularity over the city of London and other places but the British...

Wartime in Wivenhoe

We arrived at this big house in the evening where there were 2 lodgers but Mrs Chick, herself, was in...

The Twins Who Were Evacuated to Dawley

She was a ‘maiden lady’ who lived with her mother, so she decided that she would foster; so as...

Growing up during the war: Evacuee in Cornwall

My mother was a teacher at Amberley Road Primary School, Paddington, in London and she was evacuated before...

One Woman's War - The Beginning

Southern Ireland had refused to support the blackout regulations imposed in Britain and a minor panic was...

WAR CHILD:Evacuation from Liverpool

Quite suddenly there were less men around and my little world had become inhabited by pale-faced women who...

Childhood Memories

I lived with my mother and father Frank and Gladys Byfleet, and younger brother Roy, and my grandmother Mrs...

War Memories of John Percival

We lived with my grandmother in Northampton prior to going to Birmingham and I well remember the process of...

Vera Lynn Saved My Life

Gerda Anne Honey nee Ruhl (2)

The girls raced home,storming into her flat my mother shouted to my grandmother"Here are the...

Holmewood:Air Raids, Bombs and Rationing.

Alan and his family were living on Hardwick Street in Holmewood and, in common with many people across...

A Childs Memory of Life in Bristol and Barnstaple in the War

One was a girl called Pat Weeks, who lived next door to me in Bristol, and a boy called Dennis Stokes, who...

My Mothers' Experience of World War II - Memories of a Young Girl

My eldest sister, Doreen, was working in a factory making tins and I went to work at Carr's Biscuit...

My War Memories: Childhood Memories of Kirriemuir, Angus

These soldiers ware accomadated in various places in Kirriemuir, including Reform Street School, which...

A Schoolboys View of World War 2

A Schoolboy's view of World War 2 By John Salisbury I was only 6 years old living in Rose Cottage,...

Childhood Memories

Their job was crane driving and they used to travel all over the area to pick up the remains of crashed...

Evacuation to Trethosa

Trethosa Chapel Sunday School was used in addition and a teacher, Mr England was sent down from London to...

The Northamptonshire Poacher

This was when Dad became a poacher. On the next set the wind dropped and dad said “we'll catch no...

A Daylight Air-Raid in Filton, Glos.

On this particular Wednesday in September a squadron of 80 German bombers aimed at this factory, in Filton,...

From a Young Childs Eyes

As this would take us past the ruined stables owned by George's the Bristol Brewery and the decaying...

When War Broke Out: Gas Masks and Siren Suits in London and Shrewsbury - and Some Special Privileges

When War Broke Out: Gas Masks and Siren Suits in London and Shrewsbury - and Some Special Privileges....

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