The ship, Athlone Castle, was a troop ship, with evacuees on board as well....
Florence Murphy was born in Devon in 1918 in England. At that time people were rationing but Florence had...
As a child school was interrupted for 3 months when the war started. I was 12 but a child compared to kids...
We had street parties where people used up all the ration food they'd managed to save, so we had...
We still went to Sunday School to the Spiritualist Church... My mum was told that if me and my youngest...
As a child of 8 or 9 we lived at the top of a hill in Tredegar, and, one day I can...
I was 5 or 6 years old when the war started and my family owned Alton Garage and Alton Nurseries....
September 3rd 1939 as told by Mrs Nell Aylett nee Newman. About half an hour after Chamberlain's...
We were all there, my father had been injured so it was an exciting visit for mum, Jessie, Sheila and...
My sister was a GI bride — she was 20 when she met Karl and he was serving in Penley, Shropshire......
I was in a military hospital in Essex, where that German soldier P.O.W camp was. We had a German P.O.W...
The sirens went off but my parents never woke us up until the bombs started falling. I managed to get out...
Dad ran a bicycle shop in the Pitronnerie Road, which put him into contact with many soldiers who had their...
She was only about 8 years old; she said to me that the closest the war ever came to India was when...
I started nursing at 17 in the fever hospital. I stayed there until I reached the age for general nursing....
Photographs of the VE Day Celebrations at Creswell Road, Clowne, Derbyshire. I remember these photographs...
My home was in Carrickfergus where I met a soldier in the Royal Leicestershire Regiment who was stationed...
But I do recall going to the Prisoner of War camp in Cookstown and giving the German prisoners 5 Turf or 5...
Nearby on Dauckets Common, there was Army Artillery... A stray German plane eluded the artillery and...
Betty's brother Frederick was on the corvettes taking convoys to Gibraltar and America from 1940...
The bombs started to fall she didn't where to run for safety, a policeman saw her distress and...
I had to go and get the beer for my Mum from the local pub - the "jug and bottle" dept... I...
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