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My Memories

Whilst my husband was away we moved to Melbourne Street and then Vaughan Street where we lived for 25...

Recollections from my Childhood in Fordingbridge, by Pam Cole nee Richardson

The farmer at Harts Farm, Alec Butler used to call out every morning after a raid to see if everyone was...

My fathers days as a dessert rat

He was a tank driver, Bullet in the head came home on the 'Queen Mary'.Decks with other wounded,...

My Dad's Citation

There were people in the building. There was a small hole in the debris and my dad was asked to go down...

Born In Burma

In 1942 I was a border taking my Final Government Matriculation in a school in Maymyo near Mandalay, north...

VE Celebrations

My dad cut down some old fruit trees and the men made a big bonfire... We were camping on our first holiday...

Royston Bombing

It was attacked by a German plane straight away and it emptied its incendiary bombs onto a hill close to...

POW Camp in the UK

In 1945 I was moved to a prisoner of war camp in Bourton - on - the - Water, near Moreton -...

Compulsory Billetting

When we took the men into our house we were given a leaflet with the guidelines as to how to look after...

Kittens to the Canadians

Sherbourne village, Warwickshire

1939- We moved to a half timbered cottage opposite the school in Sherbourne, earth floor kitchen, no water,...

Frederick Cleaver's time with the Royal Welsh Fusdiers

Frederick Charles Cleaver was a member of the Medical team of the Royal Welsh Fusdiers... They had several...

Living with the Germans - horses

My mother was made to work in these kitchens, it was a big house up at the Mont d'Aval in the Castel......

Hop picking as War broke out

I was hop picking at Newnham Bridge near Tenbury when war brole out... I remember a landmine dropping on...

Working in Cardiff during the war

I had a brother killed a couple of years before, and he was in the RAF, and I had a brother killed...

The Royal Visit to Guernsey, 1945

Mrs Irene Gosset interviewed by John Gaisford and Rosie Mere Transcribed and edited by John David from...

Christmas 1943

The sliding door in the carriage was hanging off and Granny kept saying it was very draughty. It was an...

Glimpse of life

I have recently lost both my mother & father, Ron & Mary Stone, and have been going through all...

A Misinterpretation

My father was in the ARP and this particular evening there was a frantic knocking on the cottage door. He...

Paris Liberation

Several of my Grandparents friends were at the cinema and saw my Uncle Tom on that news reel. It being a...

Ibbotsan's Roof

The Royal Observer Corps decided to put a look out point on the top of Ibbotsan's roof which was flat....

Elvet Church at war

I am the senior steward of Elvet Methodist Chruch in Durhan City, during some renovations we came across a...

Family

My brother Frankie aged 2 and a half died from meningitus... My poor mother was grief stricken....

Desert Rats

My husband was a MP in the 8th army desert rats. He was stationed in the Egyptian desert and had to deliver...

We cycled 12 miles to get a rabbit

Walking around Oswestry, I often wondered how our parents fed us, but there was always something there for...

5) The hazards of bird watching