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15 October 2014
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Making Do

My brother Peter was working down in London as a sign writer but when war broke out he joined the navy......

Land Army Girls in Sohamicon for Story with photo

The next lot of prisoners that he had were 鈥渃onscientious objectors鈥 whom he found were lazy...

My Belgian Doll

He held onto that parcel through thick and thin and came home with a big battered cardboard box containing...

affects of war

Grandads friend was only 21 and in the army he tried to cuddle and comfort mum sadly he was killed and...

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An Occupation Wedding

But people still went to a lot of trouble, eh, going all the way from St Saviours all the way into Town...

Porteress

One was in the 8th Army Royal Engineers and one was a Melitia Boy in Dunkirk. One other thing I remember is...

affects of war

Grandads friend was only 21 and in the army he tried to cuddle and comfort mum sadly he was killed and...

Evacuees to Staffordshireicon for Story with photo

Tony Newman and Pat Bowles, brother and sister, were evacuees in 1941, from Kent... Pat and Tony were lucky...

Guernsey Evacuees meet escapers from Guernsey

Told to Margaret Le Cras of the Guernsey Museum by Mrs Elliston nee Unsworth. Approx 1944/45 a knock on the...

Fred Thomas Morgan and Mrs Florence Joyce Morganicon for Story with photo

Mr Fredrick Thomas Morgan 'Ginger' and Mrs Florence Joyce Morgan....

An Orphan Family In Wartime

The Board of Governors said that I had to go in the Forces so my eldest brother, Harry, wrote to the papers...

There was always plenty of cheese!

There was always plenty of cheese, and I've always been a great cheese eater so I never went short. A...

Everyday Life

I lived in Silsden during the war, where I worked in the local munitions factory, having moved from working...

Mock wedding in Gloucester to celebrate Victoryicon for Story with photo

This is a picture of the Victory parade after the war, mostly consisting of residents of St Catherines...

Mothers amazing dresses

We went to chapel and they used to have anniversaries and we used to have to a new dress for it 鈥...

Memories

I remember going dancing one night in Bradford, and the sirens went off, and we have to leave the party......

My Memory of VE Day

My fianc茅 was in the Far-East. I had to call to work on the buses from Penny Lane....

Saved by the Anderson Shelter

However my first ever memory was of coming out of the Anderson Shelter by our home... I enjoyed my...

The One in a Million

Bombs falling, Lady was a young midwife... The proud grandma gave the midwife and doctor 陆 dozen eggs...

Broadford Works, Aberdeen

I was born in 1917 and when I was 20 years of age I worked in Broadfords in Aberdeen making hosepipes,...

Moor Park Golf Course.

At the start of the war they filled the bunkers of Moor Park Golf Course with concrete and as it was drying...

The aeroplanes coming to bomb Hardwick paratroopers

One night there were aeroplanes from Germany that had come to bomb Hardwick paratroopers 鈥 all the...

The Day War Broke Out

On Sunday morning, after my father had gone to the local Church for the 8am service and we had had...

Rationing / False Teeth

I went home to Belfast on leave one time and was given half a dozen eggs to take back. When I was...

Wanna Come to My House for Tea & Cakes!

Wanna Come to My House for Tea & Cakes. Ottow was a prisoner of war based at Ace Conference Centre,...

The first of the V1's

When we were at Hampton Court over went the first of the V1's. A long sort of sock 鈥滱ll genuine...

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