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Memories of Truro County School

Several evacuees arrived at school, Monica Withers from Bristol, others from London, plus some who had...

Kath's Wartime in St Agnes

Mr Austin Tremain, the local butcher organised weekly dances in the Masonic Hall in Rosemundy... My friend...

War Diaries ( part1)

The following notes are excerpts from the diaries of Jozef Massart who left Mechelen on the 13th of May...

Wartime on the Homefront

The war was now moving in our favour but 1944 brought yet another unexpected and frightening prospect with...

Headless Chickens

I lived at Perivale in the district of Ealing, which was on the west side of London, and the first bombs to...

Memories of a Young Teacher

The night before war was declared I was on the last ferry returning to Liverpool from New Brighton with...

Childhood Memories of WW2

He saw no point in my mother and me remaining in Birmingham with all the horrors that were to follow so we...

The Four and A Half Year Holiday by Vera Jensen

My eldest brother joined the navy, sailing round the world on a destroyer - he was only 16 and put his age...

When the Germans Attacked Dunstable

Then we saw this German plane flying southwards along Dunstable High Street. As a thirteen year old at the...

Jim's Wartime Memories

Fortunately no one was hurt, but it meant that we had to move to Framlingham in Suffolk, where my...

WAR-TORN PENGE (London S.E. 20)

Neighbours included Walpole, Rice, Lake Saxby, Homewood, Pink, Sharp, Leigh, Hinton, Kettlety, Scrivens,...

Memoirs of a Teenage Schoolgirl in WW2

At one time we had Canadian soldiers stationed in one of the big houses and I had to deliver newspapers to...

Wartime Baby

Tobruck had fallen to Rommel, the so called Desert Fox, and the Eighth Army had started to dig in at El...

Battle of Britain

Most of the time German planes were coming overhead whilst going to places like London and they often...

Plymouth at war

In our haste to get back home in Plymouth, we took a local bus to Totnes railway station, where we boarded...

London Blitz

The basement, converted as a shelter, was constantly used, one night during a particularly bad raid, I was...

The Sadness of War

The sirens sounded, and all of a sudden a German plane dived down and started machine gunning where...

Bofors Guns and Blue Suede Shoes

I went into the Engineering works making Bofors guns at Patricroft near Eccles in Manchester. Ted and...

Childhood Experiences of The War

I lived in a semi-detached house in Coulsdon, which isn't far from Croydon and Kenley airfields, an...

A Family Life in Lewisham

I was actually born in Bath in Somerset.When I was two weeks old mother brought me home to Lewisham to my...

A Schoolboy's War

My Dad worked away from home, building hangars on the airfields, and me, my Mother and my brother used to...

'Forces House' and its Visitors

I was brought up in a large Victorian house 'Treath' in Hornchurch Essex. "The Local Troops...

D-Day - Cookie

From 1938 and during WW2 my mother wrote to a young Coldstream Guard, Jim Gregory, who was posted to...

Life In Rugby During WW2

My Grandma's brother, Jim was captured during World War 2 and held as a Japanese prisoner of war on the...

An Interview With My Gran

Eggs we only got once a week so we used them all a once on a Sunday as a huge shed load...

The Bombing of Lincoln

On the 8th May 1941 I was living at 31 Westwick Gardens in Lincoln, Lincolnshire in United Kingdom with my...