We had to do lots of marching up and down and were issued with our knickers - they were khaki and had...
He was awarded the India star, Burma star, and France and Germany star, and two gongs. He would tell many...
Peace was declared in May 1945, I can remember the news headlnies "end of war in Europe" and a...
I distinctly remember Mum's dressing gown, it was a lovely shade of baby blue and was made of quilted...
Mum managed to get a transfer to Burton on Trent to work as a clerk in a depot which among other things...
At one time a low flying Heinkel 111 came over the road in which I was walking, following an air-raid...
Mum had already sent my eldest brother to live with my Gran and Grandad in the country to be safe, and we...
Well, the next day I got myself a job at the local aircraft factory and one day when I had gone home,...
My father was in the Merchant Navy at that time, working on the Belfast to Heysham ferry “Duke of...
Written by David Crabtree, Truro, Cornwall and added to the site by Christine Wadsworth, Senior Librarian,...
He was then moved to Singapore to HMS Sultan and captured by the Japanese and sent to Chaingi jail and...
May 1940 the evacuation of Dunkirk began, we had no news of my Father so when the troops were landing at...
The twins, Arthur and Sid, had just celebrated their fifteenth birthdays when the Second World War started...
The younger one went back to our mum and then the oldest one got called up and joined the Lancaster...
To polish footwear it is advisable to use white cream, for coloured polishes are inclined to mark...
Dad was number 1, Mam was 2 and my younger sister was 4. We sat behind a man with a newspaper and...
Things we used on washdays: Soap powders: Alono Paddy – Co-op own brand Wiclo bleaching tablet Dolly...
Whilst our house was being rebuilt after the bombing we lived with my Mother-in- Law. There were timed...
As we were in the flight path to London I remember seeing German Bombers flying over in perfect V...
Then the food appeared from each of the houses; and what food — such things as we children hadn't...
Christmas times dad would paint tomato boxes and put wheels on for trolleys and make wooden bricks for the...
My parents moved down to Birchington, Kent from London just prior to the outbreak of WW2, having both...
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