A lasting memory of my beloved grandfather floods back every time I smell a tomato....
But Rosie and my grandma were addicted to snuff and were friends. My Auntie Myra went to the British Legion...
Carrying one suitcase, a gas mask and a packet of sandwiches, we walked from our school, James Allen's...
I said 鈥淛ack went up over the border, up to Willie White's up at Killea,鈥 the big black hut...
Even then my mum and dad had last minute worries - the flying bombs were falling on London and we just that...
That evening whilst I was on the bus going home, the bombing started over London. If I had not left London...
At one point my Auntie went to work in an ammunition factory nearby whilst my Mum looked after the children...
On Saturday mornings my older brother and me had to push the babies鈥 pram all the way down London...
In May and June 1940 the great escape from the Dunkirk beaches was being carried out, and Sgt. Wiggin now a...
I was living with my mum and dad and my dad's mother in a three bedroomed house in Rochdale. I...
Then there was the walk to the shops with Mum, brother and myself. My brother and I were told that...
I lived with my Mum and Dad in the village of Borough Green in Kent. Sitated some seven miles from West...
During the Siege of Stalingrad we had a carnival - we begged , borrowed and stole and collected 拢98.00...
I was 15 years old when war broke out and a pupil at Hereford High School for Girls. Young girls were not...
School I used to cycle to Lawrence Sheriff School in Rugby... I remember that they tried to merge Lawrence...
So, with my Dad pushing Mum in her wheelchair, me on her knee for most of the way and Freda walking...
I was not to remain with them on Mersy-side, however,but was sent to my aunt and uncle's house in...
The commanding officer gave Charles permission to visit Koblenz to find his parents and in a heart-warming...
When Chamberlain announced that we were at war, Dad took Pat and I back to the Island to stay with Gran in...
Some Spanish merchant ships were impounded in British ports including Belfast and Londonderry. The next day...
I applied for a job at an ex german ammunition depot, which was taken over by the British. The college I...
At age 7yrs I went to a Convent school ran entirely by French nuns who listened in to the free French radio...