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Hitler v Brighton Boy Part 1b

Alf exercised economy with security and removed the hall light bulb much to Nellie's annoyance......

Life during the Second World War for My Grandma: In Hull

My Grandma's home in the centre of Hull was demolished....

Evacuation from Bedminster

You were taken in a private car with a milk churn on the back seat, he was Mr Lawrence, to Gloweth Villa,...

A Teenager's War

In about 1943 or early 1944 I recall walking around Torquay harbour with a girl friend in the afternoon...

A Young Boy's War: Chapter 6

Step-father John was on the beach at Dunkirk flying his 鈥渁nti-Stuka鈥� kites and at Normandy on...

Memories of Two Sisters and a Husband

We did not possess many toys, but we had an Aunt Edie, who was a Salvation Army officer in Guernsey... When...

Formative Years in Johnstone, near Clydbebank, during War

Though only three years old at the out break of the war, I have still some set memories of the aura of...

Village Life in Word War Two (the early years)

It was said by the villagers that the bomber was trying to hit Little Barford power station but mistook our...

Family Memories of War

I was lucky enough to go to London with Dad occasionally to visit the Mason family, even after the war...

Big War Little War

There were three bomb sites in our road , one on the corner of Sylvester, one on the corner of Whately and...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 9 - Evacuation to Loughborough

Their eldest son, Ray, was in the Army - he was 19 years old, Betty, another daughter, was married and...

My Memories Of The Blitz

So he booked us into the Regent Palace Hotel for the night... All the hotel guests spent the night on the...

As I remember it.

Needless to say it became terribly crowded when my sisiters came home, added to that we also two others...

Wartime Memories, Henrietta Schultka

I remember going mushrooming and blackberrying with Mum, Aunt Maud and Grannie. I also remember going with...

My Benign War

In Watford the siren sounded off daily and while we were prudent, no way did we panic, so I couldn't...

A Breath of Fresh Air: Part One

When war broke out I was living with my parents, two brothers and two sisters in a two-roomed terrace flat...

A Disrupted Education

Scarcely a shot had been fired outside of the borders of Poland, when my Palmers Green Primary School was...

From Possilpark To Hutcheon Park

Small wonder that mothers and children were worn out and in tears and that the host families waiting the...

No Fixed Abode: My Evacuation Story

I was evacuated from London with my school, the Charles Edward Brookes School, to the village of East Coker...

Memories of My Childhood

Of our class sitting along the benches in the gloom trying to do lesions and dashing across to the canteen...

Ankle-deep in soot

My earliest memory connected with the war was in April 1942 when the enemy dropped bombs on York Station,...

D-Day Preliminaries: A Child in Caterham

The follwing day Eddies, the sergeant, approached my Mother "We are hopeless cooks" he said, we...

Growing Up in WW2 - And Later

At St Nazaire dock, father and his friend were parted, father directed onto the ship Princess Patricia, his...

WW2 Memories

We had to be careful what we touched as "Jerry" dropped a lot of small items such as fountain pens,...

Memories Of My Tenth Birthday

One day when the siren went, we were all home, Mum and Dad went into the shelter. Because of Dad's...

The boy and the kitten

I do remember that rainy day when my Mum my Brother and myself were helped on to the back of a lorry...