We stayed there until November 1940, and then moved to Johannesburg, which is about 1,000 from Cape Town. I...
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The Germans had firstly bombed the water mains and then sent in the planes with incendiary bombs, althought...
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I was twenty-one and was living with my husband, Cyril, in Roundhay, Leeds, when war broke out in 1939. My...
Just before war was declared, gas mask fitting took place in the local church hall,. When war was declared...
The pilot boat came up to the lifeboat and diverted it from heading into the lighthouse landing and led it...
My family lived in College Road, Kensal Rise N.W.London and I went to Princess Frederica School at the...
The drays would unload, to the poor devil in his nest. Ralph had been a prisoner at the infamous....
We were there until just after Christmas 1940 when we were sent on to South Africa on the Empress of Canada...
My father was a dhobi man - a washerman - and the family laundry - Wrigley's - was doing well enough to...
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