I was six years old when the War started and I remember my mum having to line all the curtains with...
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Her family lived out in the countryside so they were never bombed but she went to school in the town so she...
During one cold winter, the heating boilers broke down and it was freezing in the office... An assortment...
When I arrived home my mother and elder brother just stood staring at me....
During the war years my sister Kathleen who had a very nice singing voice entered a talent competition at...
I still have the most vivid memory of the return from the war of my uncle Albert Edward Lowndes, named...
On the 2nd September 1939, my Mother took my Brother and I to Ireland, as our Father, who was in the Royal...
Each day I walked to Theale to catch a bus to Reading and then Walked to the Abbey School. One evening the...
Les the eldest joined the Red Berets and Ron followed in the Royal Irish two years later. On arrival in...
My name is Laura Burdis from Marden High School and I'm entering this story on behalf of Elizabeth...
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My brother, sister and I were evacuated to a small village called Newbuildings, 12 miles from Exeter,...
When her sister joined the WAF she was sent home to work on the land. On the land she worked with German...
The rector, a Mr Sarson at Handbridge Church, he christened him, so that he was christened before Jim, my...
He used his connections to get to England, and wrote to my grandfather to say he was going back to...
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