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Landing Ship Engineers

Joined L.S.E 9 in Wallasey Docks, Merseyside being fitted out for joining the Royal Naval fleet in the Far...

War Memories from a Punjab Boyhood

Considered one of the most powerful vessels afloat during the war she was a major target of the British...

WHEN SCHOOL BECAME A FIRST AID POST.

Eventually, we all had to report to one of several local Church Sunday School Halls for half a day, whilst...

My Mothers Wartime Memories as a Teenager in Manchester

My two older brothers, Alfred and Bernard, were called up almost immediately, which upset my mother,...

Wartime Memories of Wimbledon [K.Ross]

My husband, 15 years my senior, was history master at Wimbledon College. I remember the first doodlebug on...

Dances, Dances and More Dances

Rose's eldest brother was captured in Germany and placed in a POW camp, and eventually made friends...

Ripples of War

Dear Editor Opposite my Nan's house at Drenewydd, Park Hall near Oswestry, was the home of the Badrock...

War Baby's Family Contribution to WW2

At the very beginning of WW2 my father was a volunteer policeman and my mum was a voluntary nurse... On the...

At home in Chesterfield

When war broke out, I was twenty-one years old and lived at Calow near Chesterfield. He was called up into...

MY LATE MOTHER'S RECOLLECTION OF THE NIGHT THE GERMANS BOMBED THE LONDON DOCKS. SATURDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER 1940 and others

On Saturday 7 September 1940 my mother took my two years-old brother, John, to visit a friend, Ann and her...

A Belfast Blitz

It's not widely known today that Belfast was heavily bombed by the Germans during the war. said Sam...

A Close Call

My father stayed in London in our flat in Walworth SE17 because he was in the ARP. My brother and sisters...

WW2 Memories

Uncle George and Dad had installed an Anderson shelter in our garden, to which my Grandmother, would come,...

My Memories of WW2

I lived with my family, Dot and Fred Moody, in the Prince Regent public house, Market Square, Dover. On...

My Parents and there family at war

I also went to visit them both when I was 9 & 10 When my mum & her two sisters came back...

Wartime in South Shropshire

Soon we were to meet the village vicar Reverend Reginald Griffiths and his wife Mary and their daughter...

Hackney Wick at War(in Brief)

As the war progressed we began to see POW's ,Italians in Victoria park And Germans out on Waterden...

How Mrs Hyett lived through the War

Food was still very scarce and one day when she opened her bacon ration and found it was crawling with...

My Memories of the War

St. Francis de Sales school, which was situated next to the Church,took a direct hit and a very large...

Wartime in Smethwick

During 1941 in particular, we witnessed the results of the Luftwaffe's attention to our town's...

Whitley Bay Air-Raids

One of the worst air-raids in Whitley Bay was when the air-craft carrier HMS Victorious came down the river...

Scraping By in Wartime Norwich

He didn't come home straight away but spent time in hospital in London, Aberdeen and Norwich. When he...

Countrylife in the War

Joan Buse told her story to Helen Kemp at the Fairfield Manor Nursing Home in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent. We...

Christmas Sharing

Christmas was a very special time and my Mother saved rations and coupons for Christmas Cake and a Pudding...

Mary Gray's Wartime

I went back to Coatbridge and for a year I worked in the office of Stewart and Lloyds - they made 500lb...

Dodging the bombs in Liverpool

I remember many people being killed in Liverpool when the Domestic Science School was bombed, they were hit...