At this stage, I used to have to shout through to the front shop: "Charlie, do you want pork or beef...
The planes had to land by crossing over the Earls Colne to Coggeshall road and the battle damage could...
The first memory of WW2 that I have is seeing my father in RAF uniform and my grandfather in his naval...
When the bombs were being jettisioned around us I remember one evening when my mother had gone down to the...
Me and My elder sister Doris where picked out by a nice looking couple who took us away in their car,...
During the blitz on London German aircraft would fly over head, the air raid siren having sounded almost as...
Damage and casualties were caused by high explosive, incendiary and oil bombs; by crashing aircraft; by...
We had been taught that we could tell when the flying bombs would drop because the very significant 'pop-pope' sound of their engines stopped (when the fuel ran out)...
Because the end of the War was obviously not too distant people carried on with their lives, listening for...
Mum used to invite the soldiers into the cottage for meals and tea and I, as a toddler, would be taken out...
Hitler's new miracle weapons, VI bombs first landed on London in June 1944. At the time my family, Mum...
My dad used to get up very early in the morning cycle to his allotment about a mile away for an hour...
I lived at number 9 on the Lizard in Wymondham with my stepfather Robert Poll and my younger stepbrother...
Neverthesless he became an Air Raid Warden and every night would don his tin hat, and clutching his gas...
My youngest brother did survive the war, thanks to Mum and Dad, whether any the wiser I do not know, but...
Elsie and Michael lived in a house, in Horseshoe drive, halfway between Bristol and the docks at Avonmouth....
From the circle of Daddy's arms I looked up at the ss Narkunda... It was my chance to leap up into...
My paternal grandparents lived in their own house in Trafalgar Place, Portsmouth, but when their house was...
I lived in Ramsgate in Kent with my mother Ada, my father Sid and my younger brother and sister, Sid and...
I was singing in the choir at St Michaels Church, at Evensong on the night of 24 November, the church was...
During World War 2, my sister Margaret who was just 2, my brother Ken who was nearly 7, and me aged 9,...
Their older sister, auntie Hilda and uncle John Astley lived in Ashton, or Aeston as some of the old folks...
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