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Illogan Highway memories

I lived at Illogan Highway, at Rounding Walls....

The Celebrations Were For Us

On VJ Day my older sister Isobel and myself were discharged from the "Sick Kids" Hospital in...

Dover Castle Tours

During the War there were guided tours of Dover Castle for servicemen and they were free....

Jersey Story

After the fall of France, the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by the Germans was the Channel...

Family History

John Felex Alemao served Royal Army Medical Corps 17/09/1940 to 28/07/1946 Class A. Recived Medals Burma...

The Day War Broke Out

I was 17 years old and working as a nurse at a childrens hospital. The sister dashed in and said the...

Big cakes

The food wasn't bad and the army cooked it... They used to make what I used to like — a lot of...

Wedding Photo - Bill Smith and Annie Walker.

Wedding Photo - Bill Smith and Annie Walker. Bill Smith and Annie Walker were married in Blackwell chapel...

Giving out Gas Masks.

My father was in the ARP during the war.I would have been about 10 or 12 years old. I remember the gas...

Emmanuel Chapel

Edited Transcript of Margaret Le Cras interviewing Mrs Evelyn Bryce. Evelyn Bryce Yes, Emmanuel....

Smoking and Fights

We got herbal tobacco from the chemist and smoked it in the colliseum and we were very sick. The military...

Child Gas Masks

I remember the child gas masks - the type which held the baby inside! We also had "Mickey Mouse"...

Uniform and food in the Navy

So our food was quite good in the Navy. Ther food I had at school before I joined the Navy wasn't as...

A bed in a bath

I decided to make him a bed in a bath which I put under the table. I felt he was safer there...

Don and Doris Street married August 18th 1945

Taken outside Rose Cottage in a small village called Crowfield, near Towcester. The Searchlight Under...

Traffic Light Sandwiches

He says he always remembers his father coming home on leave from the army and the delight of his visit was...

Working as a Conductor

I worked as a conductor on bus number 11 and if the money didn't tally with the tickets sold you got...

VE Day 50th Anniversary Plate

The above plate was issued by the Birmingham Mail to commemorate the 50th VE Day Anniversary... Thank you...

Daniella's Great Grandfathers Memories

During world war 2 my wife lost her father he was killed and was awarded the Victorian Cross for bravery.My...

Little contact with the Germans during the Occupation of Guernsey

Marion Martel interviewed by Becky Kendall of Radio Guernsey at the Guernsey Museum March 2005, transcribed...

First lady and sixpence

He was writing about the war time Dover and I showed him the caves where we had sheltered during the...

Life in Lancashire with a young baby

I was living in Lancashire at the time, living near Burnley... He was all over Scotland, then he went to...

Life at Plessley Vale

My name is Freda and I lived at Pleasley Vale....

The Ice cream lady that saved the day

During the war, my Mother used to sell Eldorado Ice cream from a little truck on the LMS Station. One day...

Dreams for the Future

As a teenaged in the war I can clearly remember thinking how wonderful it would be to be able to go to...

Petrol Coupons

When war broke out my Father decided I would be safer as a border at the convent school that I attended as...