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Evacuated from Maidstone, Kent to Devon

We being my Mum, my brothers Charlie aged seven, Chris aged six and my sister Anne at just one. Dad said...

Evacuations

My brother and I never went to school, we seemed to play all day, climbing trees and the haystacks, and...

As I Remember It

In her innocence my Mum said I could just shut my eyes, but when I heard the concerted gasp of horror from...

Evacuation to Bell Hall

Our final destination was Bell Hall in the village of Belbroughton. Bell Hall was like being in an...

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Evacuated to America and Back Again!

My two sisters, Anne and Alison, were sent to a local nursery school called Peter Pan and the story goes...

Evacuation to Ely

We only travelled for about two hours and ended up at Ely station. While at Ely, my Mum and Dad, Aunt and...

My Brush with the Luftwaffe

At the same time I heard a lot of noise that sounded like stones rolling off a tin roof and saw two...

Growing up during the war: In Kent and Devon

One of my little friends was shot in the back as she ran home from school by a german fighter plane ....

A Happy Evacuation (from Hove to Upton, Yorkshire), But ...

At the time the family consisted of Mum, Dad, me, an 8 year old boy and my 6 year old sister... I...

Wartime Diary of a Schoolboy in Isleworth, London

He kept a diary throughout the war years which documented his experiences as a schoolboy living in London...

The Quiet Side Of The War

My sister and I were evacuated from Flixtonto my Grandmother's home approximately 4 miles outside...

A Brief History of a WW2 Evacuee

A bus was waiting to take about 20 children to Barrowden, a beautiful village beside the River Welland. I...

EVACUATION FROM GUERNSEY

The Germans were not cruel to the Guernsey people left on the island but were dreadful to the P.O.W's...

A Birthday Treat

At the next lull, we decided that we would try to get to Goodge Street tube station where we may catch a...

My Memories as a Child in Bristol

One Sunday my mother was preparing cabbage for lunch and asked me to take the outter leaves outside to the...

Boyhood at War: A Tracer Bullet through the Bedroom Window

The closest the war ever actually came was when a tracer bullet crashed through the bedroom window during...

Memories of the Battle of Britain: A Child in Cliffe, Kent

Mostly the German Aircraft attacked R.A.F. Fighter airfields but on Saturday 7th September, late in the...

Living on Anlaby Road during the early 1940's.

In 1940, my father became the caretaker at Bourne methodist church on Anlaby Road. My bags were packed...

Close Encounters: Unexploded Bombs and Crashing Aircraft in Surrey

With my brother Bob having been the first in our family to suffer a near miss when the falling...

Airfields and Americans

My name is Les Willis, now aged 75, so any remembrances are tarnished by the passing of 60 years since the...

My War as an Evacuee in Lancashire

One of my Uncles was in the Merchant Navy so my cousin and I used to save ‘ship halfpennies’...

Evacuation to Blackpool

On September 1st 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland, I was 13 and evacuated from Manchester to Blackpool...

Memories of Bagshot Park [P.Gibson]

It was June 1940, I had just reached my 15th birthday, when my mother deposited me at Bagshot Park, the...

Evacuation

Iwas evacuated twice during the war,we were in Devon the first time,which i dont remember as i was only a...

Early Evacuation:Lowestoft to Derbyshire

The occupants were Mr and Mrs Hibbard and their son Geoffrey who was the same age as my brother... Mrs...

Evacuation to Bedford

Arriving at Bedford Railway Station along with several other families we were taken to St. Cuthberts Church...

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