My cousin has a photograph of him holding her eldest brother as a baby with tufts of hair growing out of...
Then my Mother got a job as a usherett at the Odeon Cinema in Sutton Coldfield. Straight from school I had...
My sister Edna aged 4 and myself stayed with our Mam in our house in Bow Street, Liverpool. Our Mam, who...
People thought Belfast wouldn't be attacked because it was so far away and when it was bombed, we were...
3rd September 1939 On board PO and O Steamer Viceroy of India in the Mediterranean between Italy and Malta...
On her birth certificate it was St. Johns Road, Sparkhill in the parish of Yardley in the county of...
He could not sign up for the war because of his health, so during the war he drove the buses to the...
Walter and Jessie Friend lived in Harrow with their young son Derek. Jessie received notification of...
Mum met Wilf Elliott on the 99 bus from Bristol to Avonmouth. Within a few more days Dad was in the Welch...
In the second World War I travelled twice by sea as a civilian to and from East Africa where my husband was...
We arrived in Chorley Wood station and while we were waiting outside wondering which way to go, a lady...
Annie was born at the Post Office in Beachley. Annie can remember going to Barry for a day trip, she...
My wife, the children and I myself went to the British Consulate in Dunkirk where the Vice-Consul informed...
Jean recalls watching a dog fight from her Aunt's bedroom, near Dartford Heath. There was the Joyce...
She lived on Falkenseer Chausse, a broad boulivard running through Spandau in the NW of Berlin,with her...
In 1942/43 the Engish airforce bombed the railway station in Nice to stop the movement of German troops...
Warwick Avenue was exciting to us as there was a barrage balloon stationed there. I missed seeing the...
The first wave of bombers dropped incendiary bombs, causing hundreds of small fires to spring up and the...
The next memory is 29th June 1944 when my Brother myself and a lodger were sleeping in the Anderson air...
It was decided that I along with my foster mum would be taken to see my brother John in Shropshire, he was...
Uncle Fred was 鈥渂ombed out鈥 and Kathleen's family home had the windows blown out......
From what I gather many years later his initial work was preparing maps for the Royal and Merchant Navies...
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