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School Days in Wartime Bridport

I was a First Aid assistant with Dr. Arnett and we used to have our area behind what used to be the...

Evacuated to Cornwall

Dad was presented with a Clock for his bravery and I have the letter he received from the Dean of St. Pauls...

A Boyhood in a Wartime England; Part 7

It was in 1941 that a British Halifax bomber, returning from a desperate night raid on Germany, in an...

A War Child in Hampshire

It was his brother in law, Jim Woolgar who was a sailor on HMS Barham which was anchored outside Liverpool....

The Collaborator: Childhood Memories in Bishop Auckland

I was recounting to a small group of people how, as a child, I had walked to school passing the local...

Refugees from The Netherlands. Part One- Breskens to past Amiens.

My British parents. and I,are living in Breskens,Zeeland,Netherlands and my grandparents, one aunt and one...

Wartime Experiences: Evacuation, the Luftwaffe, and Disrupted Education

Immediately following the outbreak of war and heeding government advice my mother self-evacuated my sister...

The Blitz in Liverpool Remembered

As I was closing the door, I saw a blaze of light very close at hand, and I decided that an incendiary...

My Friend Hille

You were Madame Le Blanc In our charades While I sat in another room Dressing in white apron and white cap...

Evacuating London

He left my younger brother with my mother in London and set off by train to Leeds. We used to scrump apples...

A Child's Memories of World War 2 in England

My earliest memories of war-time Britain were, gas masks to be carried at all times, an air raid shelter...

Memories of a Small Boy

Not dramatic ones, I was lucky being evacuated away from the worst of the bombing of London to my...

Wartime Schooling

I remember being there when the Bristol Aircraft Co suffered a daylight raid and hearing the explosions...

Evacuation, 1939: From Leytonstone to Brentwood

Leyton, although in effect an eastern suburb of London was then in the county of Essex - thus our school...

Any Gum Chum: Childhood Memories of Bushy Park

It appeared to us kids that the American soldiers stationed at General Eisenhower's headquarters in...

Growing Up in East London During World War 2

And the sticky tape stopped the windows from shattering with the bomb blast. Later in the day, my mum found...

Siren Sounded a New Way of Life

The date was Sunday, September 3rd, 1939 and the previous day my brother Alfred and I had been part of the...

Four years in Blitz - evacuated at 13

I came from an environment where, meat, sugar, bread, butter, milk, was all very strictly rationed, and...

A Wartime Student

In 1945 I was a student at Manchester University studying physics and chemistry. I went into Wilmslow and...

Roland's War

Our family comprised my mother, Emily, my sisters,Renee and Barbara and my younger brother, David. My...

Memories of School Days in Wickford in WW2

Unfortunately the shop had to close, and we moved up to number 8 Victoria avenue, a bungalow where we also...

The Bombing of Guernsey Harbour 28th June 1940

We took the bus to town, got off at Pier Steps, walked up them to the Smith St./ High St junction by...

A Boyhood in a Wartime England; Part 2

The Borough's schools and town hall and other public buildings, including the Education Office, as I...

I Saw Glenn Miller Conduct

It was from that airfield that Colonel Glenn Miller left in the famous Norseman, never to be seen again....

As I Remember as a Boy in Bomb Alley

Night after night the German bombers came over, their targets being the Woolwich Arsenal and the docks, we...

The Conkering Hero: Conkers in Bushy Park

It appeared to us kids that the American soldiers stationed at General Eisenhower's headquarters in...