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Escape from a German Firing Squad

Jean-Pierre Nogaret and Pierre Broullet were two school friends from the village of Badaroux, who also...

War Memories; Sidney in Leicestershire

My second eldest brother went into the 8th Army and was sent to North Africa where he was taken prisoner...

Southwark Family Memories of WWII

In the days before the start of World War II, under the supervision of my father who was incapacitated, my...

A small boy in Surrey.

I can remember as a boy of 6 learning the Canadian National Anthem at school so that we could sing it at...

War Time Memories

That summer, our grocer Harold Graham of the Golden Tea Pot Newry advised my mum to stock up on certain...

A Boyhood Blitzed by War

So my mother, two sisters, my brothers Chris and Arthur and Jim, all climbed into the Anderson shelter in...

On the Home Front

The reason my parents wanted this was because they were Mayor and Mayoress of Dagenham and were going to be...

One Boy's War by B Mills

The aircraft seemed to lift at the last minute missing the house and crashing into the park. Bits of rubble...

Childhood Memories Of WW2

Later, during the time of the V1 flying bombs,, we used to look up at the Spitfires trying to shoot them...

Margaret's and Fred's Story

Eeeh it were like a second honeymoon,. The day after Fred's departure Margaret made her way back to...

The First News from Denmark

Minna's letter was written on the eve of her departure for a camping holiday in Salcombe, Devon, with a...

Life in Lincolnshire - 1940

In 1938 I was appointed as Secretary to the Horncastle District War Agricultural Committee, first on a...

The Day the Telegram Came

He caught the earliest train back to his base on Thorney Island in Hampshire so that he would have a good...

A Baby's War

But many things changed after September 1939: the car, a lovely black Standard 10 with a rear boot door...

Raking Over the Ashes and Parts of My Life - As Told to Me by My Parents - Part 4

My Uncle Charlie's son, Jack Beesley was with the Troop in France he was with the Signall Corp. My...

The War as I Knew It - Part 2

In the front room there was another bed in the wall, where my Aunt Jean was to sleep, an open-out settee...

My Wartime Experiences

Being an A.R.P. warden he would have been told that in future church bells would not be rung unless as a...

My War Memories

My eldest brother of the two was a navigator, bomb aimer and my younger brother was a pilot, they both flew...

Forties Fragments

I used to help a couple of nights a week at the Church Army Canteen in Gosport, walking home, quite late,...

Reluctant Private Evacuee.

Aunty Rose as we came to call her was a really lovely lady, she had not been married long and her husband...

Growing Up Fast

Mrs. Mason was a young girl living in Ewell, Surrey during the war and recalls the tragic crash of a...

Wartime Memories - Following the Army

Having reached the requisite age in 1938, I attended the Church of England Primary school in Lydd where,...

A Grimsby Mum At war

Luckily he was a survivor and dispatched to the naval hospital at Chatham.I left my children with my mother...

FLASHBACK : Daddy Came Home From the War

MY FLASHBACK MEMORY OF WHEN 'DADDY' CAME HOME FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND WE MEET FOR THE VERY...

My War Memories

My eldest brother of the two was a navigator, bomb aimer and my younger brother was a pilot, they both flew...

Losing a Son

On the afternoon of June 8th 1940 some German planes flew over Ipswich while I was in Holywells Park having...