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I remember sitting on the floor in the dining room of our rented house in Winton with my two brothers...
That summer, the two girls, myself and a friend, went to stay with her brother in Derby... We had made some...
Introduction This article has been submitted on behalf of Mrs Annie Ferguson from Whitehaven, Cumbria who...
Fire watch groups were formed by local businesses to maintain watch for incendiary bombs on the roofs of...
In London I went to school at Greycoats Girls School but not for long for then the bombing started again...
When War broke out I was in Switzerland with my parents, but I was British, because I was born there, and...
The town of Redruth, where I lived, was not a target but, not that I knew at the time, it was once...
Eventually mother, my middle sister and l crossed to southern Ireland to take refuge with Uncle Frank and...
It did not matter that they were giving away their food, some of which was in short supply - the poor lads...
My sister and I woke up on Christmas day to find our stockings on the end of the bed. The women drank...
Mum's elder half brother, Harry Rye, was a sailor, a Chief Stoker on Aircraft Carriers, his wife was...
David died later during a compulsory march into the depth of Germany at the time when the Germans started...
We had been on holiday in Oban, Argyll, where I now live, and as the news became more and more grave, and...
A couple of days before the unconditional surrender of Germany, English and Scottish troops marched towards...
A few days later, when the German advance was in full, "blitzkrieg" flow I left Warsaw and...
I often went with my friend who lived over the road, to visit her Aunt in Fisher Street, and one day when...
Our world then was a happy place, we lived in a small weatherboard house in an inner suburb of Sydney. I...
My husband had an aunt who was cook to the then Countess Cowley who lived in a mansion in Wiltshire. This...
During 1938, I started school at the Cathedral School for Girls, in Shanghai — Geoffrey was already...
It was unthinkable that we should have it all to ourselves and I think about eight children in the end had...
What Mrs. STONEMAN didn't know was that an American bomber had attacked the U-507's sister ship...
They showed resentment that my eldest brother, who was a regular serviceman, was serving in Palestine,...
De-fascism programme, Italy After treatment for shell-shock my father was judged not fit for active service...
The bombing started in 1940 and my sister and I had a week off from school, half term and we had a...
The factory was based on the corner of Green Lane and Tring Road in Dunstable. Later on we had a Polish...
The same thing happened some 4-5 months before, to most of the men of this town, my father and my uncle...
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