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Wartime memories of my childhood in Bedford Part 4 - Sabotage work of Major C V Clarke, 'Operation Josephine' raid on Pessac Pow

Wartime memories of my childhood in Bedford Part Four — Sabotage work of Major C. V. Clarke;...

Childhood Memories of World War Two in Leicester

I lived with my mum, dad and sister, Jean in Leicester. There weren't many presents but Jean and I...

A Country Treat

Aunty Louise was Mum's, Mothers sister and Uncle Herbert was the Head Gardener at the Hall... They...

Mother's letters - 2

Your letter to Florence took four weeks to come and just arrived before I came up here to visit Pat &...

Ultimate Sacrifice.

And so in June 1944 after a massive build up the allies returned to France at the beaches of Normandy.At...

The War in Cambridge

When my second daughter was born in April my brother and his new wife came to live with me as they had...

What Mum and Dad told Me after the War

One winter's night my dad ran into one with his car and my mother who was sitting in the front...

Gordon Dickenson-Bright lights of Yarmouth and the Bombing of Bradford

Bright lights of Yarmouth and the Bombing of Bradford....

A Child's Memory of the Second World War

Dark streets,car headlights with metal top hats to restrict the light and bumpers painted white.The buses...

A Young Mother in Wartime Norwich

The bombing got worse and David, a young lad who lived next door, helped me to get the children into the...

WW2 Experiences of an Evacuee Chapter 3.

Germany were now directing their newly developed flying bombs at London and South East England... On March...

Eastenders

My first memory of war was after we had moved a couple of hundred yards down Grange Road into “the...

Joan Quibell's Diary - Part One - War Declared

Towards the end of my time at College, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and a lot of talk about war was being...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 10

Too young to fight in the First World War and then too old to fight in the Second, her Father found himself...

Sheila's War Time Story.

I had a younger sister and she was a baby, she had a very big one that my Mum had to fit...

My Wartime Memories

I called them Uncle Fred and Aunt Cis I remember that I slept under the table downstairs, unfortunately the...

Boyhood WW2 Memories

On the sunday nightthe Germans came back to blitz Sheffield again, from my grandma's front room, some...

A little Lad's War: Bath Blitz, War Effort, Father Preparing Civil Servants for Germany

Dad in the mean time had joined the NFS having been released from the obligation of Guerilla Warfare based...

Another Unforgettable Moment

Then sure enough, Henry heard a familiar sound from overhead and he looked up to the sky where, in the few...

War Baby

The bombings: Lincolnshire had munitions factories and aerodromes. The county was regularly targeted by the...

From Siberia to Arnhem via Scotland

In January ’42 Franek is accepted into the army and travels to Kraznodzk and then by oil tanker...

Evacuated From Edge Hill

We attended the Welsh Chapel on Sundays with Auntie Blodwen and Uncle Tom... Edith remembers her little...

Childhood Memories - Sheila Polson

I remember being told that Mum and Dad were going visiting with my young sister and we had to stay at home....

More about Clowne and the Stretton/Green Families

Of course nell was always anxious for news of Frank, and would stand at the front gate, waiting for the...

Audrey's Wartime Adventures part 9 :my family

But then mother had had to get up early to milk the goats, take them out to pasture and tether them, feed...

My War Years 1939-1945 (Part 2 1942-1945)

In January my son Michael was born, Joe was in India and Burma. It took Michael some time to realise who...