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A1138105 - Letter in the Desert

BOWLED OUT FROM BURMA

He was set to go to Burma, But he was playing Cricket with the local people and everyone played cricket in...

Some Mother's lads

When I was about six or seven, we used to have the Germans working mending the roads and my mother made a...

Pyjamas

When the air raid siren went off at night, we would make our way along the landing, then go down under the...

Lights back on but no beer

I spent VE day in London outside Buckingham Palace and all the lights were on, it was amazing, I'd...

Abandoning their Post

My father was in the Home Watch and one night, along with a gentleman called Mr. Houghton was on guard at...

The Innocence of a RAMC Soldier

There was a great deal of training culminating in a nursing exam. I'll never forget that exam beacause...

Memories of George William Davidson

George William Davidson RAF Service Number 1203211 Served during the Second World War in India and...

Who's snoring?

Lady ARP Wardens used to come round the shelters and if anyone was snoring they used to hold the...

THE BOURNEMOUTH BELLE GOES TO DUNKIRK

I was 15 years old and on firewatch at the top of the Bowmakers building in Old Christchurch Road,...

Coal, Mice and Us!

Coal, Mice and Us. The first time the siren sounded we all went down to our shelter. It was so small we...

My Great Grandmothers story of her loss

My mother told me that the force of bombs blasted the little baby boy,Thomas,out of her arms. I asked my...

'Cake for Christmas'. as told by Nancy Barnard

During the war when food and luxuries were scarce, my mum wanted to give us a treat and bake us a Christmas...

Creeping Out To Go Dancing and Chewing Gum

We would wait until mum and dad had gone to bed and then we would go creeping out to the dances... There...

Evacuees

I was living in Blackfordby which is two miles from Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire... We had two...

How our holiday photos may have helped the war effort!

The attached are photos of the Brittany Coast which were taken on a family holday in 1932. By this point I...

Birtley's Army Cadet Force

In 1943 I joined the Birtley Army Cadet Force at the age of 13. My job when the siren went, I had...

Billy wheeler's

The dance hall was called Billy Wheeler's, it used to be a cinema," Doris recalls... Doris, Kitty...

THE WAIT - Pvt. Danny Walsh

He'd bought him five woodbines The last time he had seen him, Walking to the railway station. The First...

Life at Fisher and Ludlows

My job at Fisher and Ludlows was making baby gas masks and incendiary bombs, whilst working week-ends the...

My Father's Story

My father Lawrence Mckeown of the Green Howard's was killed in Otta, Oslo in 1940. 8 years ago, a girl...

Night Time Visitor

When my husband Tom came home on leave he had missed the last train from Hereford and decided to walk home...

Memories of a Chippenham girl

My grandmother Millie Rose-Rivers was 8 months pregnant when war was announced. Millie also used to tell me...

Improved Language

I was the youngest Air Raid Warden in the borough at the time, I was 17. We did have a few incidents...

Rags - Jack Russell

The great pleasure of the blackout was to take Rags*,our dog, for a walk on a windy moonlit night with...

D-Day Troops

I remember standing at the end of Rickman's Worth High Street, looking towards Uxbridge and watching...