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A Wartime Childhood

He was most upset about the pigs, and went into the building to get them out while the large cylindrical...

Hard Hit

I was 11 years old when the second world war started and I lived in Southampton with my mother and father,...

Marjorie Pinchin

I think those two actually came from London, and Dad was in the Merchant Navy, and Alfie had been told not...

War Years in Haynes

In addition, I recall Tony Moran, a boxer friend of Dad's, who was totally browbeaten by his even...

A Teenager's War

In about 1943 or early 1944 I recall walking around Torquay harbour with a girl friend in the afternoon...

Formative Years in Johnstone, near Clydbebank, during War

Though only three years old at the out break of the war, I have still some set memories of the aura of...

Family Memories of War

I was lucky enough to go to London with Dad occasionally to visit the Mason family, even after the war...

My Benign War

In Watford the siren sounded off daily and while we were prudent, no way did we panic, so I couldn't...

Recollections of July 13 1944

Father, closely followed by my elder brother and myself, rose went into the hall where he chose to turn...

My experience as a teenager

For example, the disabled 88-year old who with a stirrup pump and buckets of water put out the fire caused...

Keeping Ourselves Together

I couldn't keep those I received from Margaret, in case I was captured by the Germans, who could've...

World War 2 Recollections

Their garden shed had a skull and crossbones cut from sheet lead pinned over the door, done by their son,...

Growing Up in WW2 - And Later

At St Nazaire dock, father and his friend were parted, father directed onto the ship Princess Patricia, his...

Memories Of My Tenth Birthday

One day when the siren went, we were all home, Mum and Dad went into the shelter. Because of Dad's...

Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire - and Back!

Now he was stationed at HMS Raleigh at Torpoint, and later in the war he was posted to HMS Duke at Great...

The Blitz and Air Raids in Coventry

This story was told to Katy Parkinson and Kelly Nash from St. David's High School with Ted Cooks full...

Wartime Memories of a Young Boy

My uncle, aunt and two cousins set out in his car and my mother, father, brother and I in ours and we...

Child's View of WW2 - 1939-1945

German bombers used to fly over Leigh on the way to London by day and night and they dropped bombs on Leigh...

Daddy where are you?

I was the youngest of four children each of us hoping for some small personal message from our hero. He...

Morrison Table Shelter

My youngest brother did survive the war, thanks to Mum and Dad, whether any the wiser I do not know, but...

My Memories of WW2

He was once in a camp with Douglas Bader but was separated because one was navy and the other army and...

Interning the Innocents

From Mein Kampf (1922) onwards, it was blatantly clear that his war against Jewry and his determination to...

Memories of the War Years in Liverpool

My father, Charles Graham, lost his leg in the First World War at the age of 19, so he was never...

Evacuation From Leeds On 1st Sept. 1939 Chapter 2

Our family were members of St. George's Church, Leeds, where the famous vicar The Rev... Mrs Deakin, a...

Winnie's Story

Winnie and some of her friends would sneak out at lunch time under the perimeter fence to go for a walk on...

My Mother's War

My mother had lots of boyfriends including a biker who took part in speedway races at Wimbledon Stadium,...