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What Mum Told Daughter

Her dad came from weaste to see if she was all right, they found there was no doors on, every body knew...

Berol Chambers Story

Beryl Chambers was 16 when the war started... Like most other children, Beryl missed out on things like...

Red Sky over Coventry

Just after this I was told that the red sky we could see a long way in the distance from London was...

War-time and My Growing Family! by Alice Lowry

He was then stationed out in Italy and our third baby, a boy, was born in 1943... As the war ended, we...

WWII Memories

Some Welshmen came to work at the Barugh Chemical Works; they were experimenting on how to make solid fuel...

Caen My Father's Story

But when he spilled hot tea over his legs one Sunday all those years later and had to quickly take off his...

A Snapshot from Coventry

Memories of World War 2 A Snapshot from Coventry by Betty Edwards. The film showing at the cinema at the...

My Granny in World War II

My Granny's life in the Second World War. She went to stay with her Granny for a year which was sort of...

A Little Girl's Wartime Memory of Visiting Ships in Barry Dock by Jacqueline Brooks (nee Kathrens)

A Little Girl's Wartime Memory of Visiting Ships in Barry Dock by Jacqueline Brooks. This was a...

Wartime Memories

My husband was in the army and he went from Iceland to Ceylon, India, Burma, South Africa and East...

A Child's Memory

My Father was in the Royal Engineers and served in North Africa, Egypt and Palestine... My second clear...

How I met my husband

There were queues to the cinema everywhere but when the commissioner came out he selected people in pairs,...

Rabbit Pie?

I remember one afternoon a bomb being dropped near to Dragon Square in Chesterton - it wiped out a whole...

My Parent's War

My parents lived in Hillmorton, Rugby and spoke of nights stood on the landing watching Coventry being...

Evacuated to Ireland

My dad took us to Eire in August 1940 – being neutral Eire was taking in many children... During that...

Things That My Family Remember About WWII

My Great Grandad Charles Rides helped to build the aircrafts that bombed Germany. Grandad Billy's dad...

The Tragedy of War

My youngest brother was 21 and a Sergeant Air-Gunner. My husband was in the Royal Artillery and was...

Potteries at War

I remember hearing the bombs that were dropped in Newcastle where we lived, and one night just after the...

A Lost Brother

My brother Walter was forced to go into the German Army eventually and ended up at war with his brothers...

Going to the dentist WW2

I was taken out of my house in Ogle Street Armagh to the Cannal River Road in the middle of the night...

Home-Made Bomb and Other Recollections of the War

My grandmother got such a shock that she flung her arms around my father's neck and screamed “The...

An October 1939 Mum

In 1939 when war began I was pregnant with my third child, it was late in the pregnancy and my baby...

A child's view of German occupied Italy

The nuns told them that the children had already gone and the Germans didn't believe that a nun would...

Life At Home: The Other War

All the other girls in the street called me Patch, owing to the fact some would said I was as fine as...

Springhill residents memories

Kathy Armour's brother was in the 51st Armoured Division. The newspapers didn't record much about...

Singing for your supper- a few random family memories

Sing us a song, Kitty!' said the women to my Mum, when they came out into the back yards and...