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Another Refugee Story

In September 1939 the Australians playing cricket and in papers it said "Australia Declared" I...

My Memories of Earl Shilton in the War

I remember a bomb dropping on Everard's Field, in Earl Shilton. My dad was working in a munitions...

Boy's Own War

Every day we walked in a crocodile to the Baptist Church in Station Road and went down into the basement,...

My Wartime Experiences

Once Hitler lost the Battle of Britain in August 1940 and then the night raids, London had a reasonably...

Childhood Memories of Wartime Norwich

I used to walk down Ber Street in Norwich to see my Grandparents and there were huge hose pipes strewn...

A Schoolgirl鈥檚 Memories of Evacuation

The day arrived when we were told which railway station to be at 鈥� Harwich, Dovercourt, Parkeston...

Childhood Memories in Barnsley

Eggs were the hardest things to buy, you could go several weeks without eggs and then you would get 6 weeks...

Across the Atlantic: Evacuated to Canada

The unreality of the early months of the war, found our family living in a semi in a small Hertfordshire...

Child of the war story by Marionne

My mother took us away as evacuees again to Frampton Mansell in the Cotswolds 鈥� lovely country but...

My War:Childhood memories of Merseyside

Unbeknown to me then, Mum & Dad put me down for this scheme but had second thoughts after the...

Evacuation to Cornwall

My mother used to cycle from Worcester Park to Claygate to work for the NAAFI and my father worked in...

Doodlebugs

Another time were were in the garden when there were several doddlebugs buzzing about and a hurricane...

A Schoolboy in WW2

Homeowners were encouraged to keep chickens and wooden chicken houses about 8ft by 6ft sprang up with wire...

Good Comes From Evil: Part 3

It was decided that I along with my foster mum would be taken to see my brother John in Shropshire, he was...

A child's view of adults at war

Their memories of air raids, food shortgages, casualty lists, looting of German owned shops, the Silvertown...

Back-garden Shelters in the London Blitz

TRAGEDY Not long after our return there was no air-raid alert when we heard a lone plane and the whistle of...

VE Day Street Party

The other nurse was a London girl and her name was Jean. It was 1944 and the incendiary and other bombs had...

VE Day Street Party

The other nurse was a London girl and her name was Jean. It was 1944 and the incendiary and other bombs had...

'Watery Grave' of Heinkell 111 P-4

Because of our close proximity to Liverpool and Birkenhead, we are as the 'Crow Flies' only...

鈥淭here鈥檚 A German Plane Up There鈥�

It is not difficult to imagine the excitement and interest this event caused, as we watched From our...

War Memories: From Hong Kong to York

Mum started work in 1943 at the Billing Section of the REME on St Georges Field, by the river side. and was...

Evacuee from Bermondsey

I do know that shortly after George went into the army and despite being a Londoner he enlisted in the...

VE Day Street Party

The other nurse was a London girl and her name was Jean. It was 1944 and the incendiary and other bombs had...

WW2 Through The Eyes of a South London Lad

When the bombing started, it was obvious that poor Kath was a bag of nerves, so, although Mum and Dad had...

Olive Roots鈥� Dymchurch and Newchurch War Childhood

Lived in Blackmenstone a farm near Newchurch Romney Marsh Kent. One Sunday morning a German plane came down...

An East Ender in Monmouthshire and Taking the Family down the Shelter by Rose Hyams (nee Wolfshaut)

Back to the East End for a holiday I came back for a holiday with my sister and she didn't want to...