Mary Pritchard nee Stewart was always known as 鈥淢aisie鈥, was born in Everton, in Liverpool on...
Born in 1938 I was a young child during the Second World War, and I remember much of it, particularly the...
I don't know whether that was too old for call up but in any event he was not fit enough, having been...
We at this time were having numerous raids over Swansea, and the surrounding areas but these were nothing...
Men and Machines at various times through daytime and night made their journey to the Newport Docks down...
My mother was pianist and assistant dance teacher in her mothers song and dance school somewhere in SE5...
A few months later this boy, his sister and their mother kiss their father farewell and drive away into the...
On that Wednesday afternoon I took my seven year old brother to the Central Cinema in Friar Street to see...
You were the pilot last time you are the rear gunner" "No I'm not I'm the bomb aimer an,...
I can remember us waiting for the air raid siren to go and my dad would wrap me in a blanket and...
After eating his lunch, David will gasp his way the mile or so back to school, where his teachers, all...
Tears flowed profusely as mum's cried out 'Don't forget to write 鈥 Be good 鈥 Wash...
Give them hell.'' It was only after the war that I learnt that Churchill had ordered Bomber Command...
We had Belgian fishermen who talked a strange way; air raid warning sirens that at night meant a night...
One grey morning in October 1944 as the North Luffenham children made their way to the railway station,...
Often a neighbour would put on the radio loudly and call out to me 'come on Margaret - give us a...
Secondly, at home our house near Croydon aerodrome was fortunately not damaged or destroyed by bombing and...
It's May 1941 - The Battle of Crete, which marked the first large-scale paratroop invasion in history,...
We lived in a tied cottage belonging to Cavick Farm, near Wymondham in Norfolk. They were staying with the...
I had a grandmother who lived in Seaford, Sussex and it was decided I should go to boarding school there,...
After some negotiation my father found himself posted as Deputy Naval Stores Officer to the dockyard of HMS...
I started school and went to Woodlands in Church Street which is now offices, and during the first year,...
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