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Childhoold in Chester During the War

I left school during the war at 14yrs old, I went to work as a cashier at Henry Dodds the butchers in...

D Day Food Distribution.

Out of the blue this area of land was taken over by the Army and in only a few weeks there was...

Moving to London

So with my two brothers and sister I had to move to the outskirts of London with my auntie, uncle and...

A Young Teenager in the War

The only time Hyde was bombed was the night of the Manchester blitz... When I was 16 I wanted to join the...

A Quiet War

I think the chocolate factory was bombed once, and my brother had to dive into a ditch one night, on his...

'Do You Know Me Daddy'

My father was based in Iraq during the war- he was in Basra for the duration of his service... She put the...

Lower Saxony: Family Life 1944/45

During the night there was a major British bombing raid and the family had taken refuge in the basement,...

My Mum, Joyce Beech

My father, William John Andrews, was a chief petty officer in the Navy, serving on Submarine Triad. My...

Our Leicester

When he left the army after his injury he worked in engineering travelling the world... Then I started...

Bringing Up Baby Alone

Our son was born in December 1942 and Edward, my husband, was allowed home to see his son when he was two...

Shopping: One Mars Bar Per Week

Because I had a baby brother, my mother used to ask me to go queue up at shops some 15 mins walk...

Malta Bombings

On the first day, Malta was bombed, but the first raid was in the Italian island of Sicily.When see grew...

A Wartime family

Canterbury recieved a heavy bombing and we hid under a table to shelter wih our two sons... We lived in...

A Braintree Family at War

He was then posted to Naples in Italy for the rest of the War where he worked on Lancaster Bombers. My...

Fallen Soldier

My father Lewis was killed along with his two friends on the 2nd or 3rd March 1944 in Station Road,...

School Life Under German Occupation

We lived at the Bas Courtils in St Saviours, but went to school at the Trepied at St Saviours. The other...

LIVING WITH THE GERMANS — The not so good…….

But anyhow, in the Truchot sometimes there was an awful big fat German soldier on duty guarding the...

Heartbreaking News

My very earliest recollection of WWII is the day my mother and brother received the news that my father,...

Life at Home

My father was a carpet weaver at MacKay's factory in Durham. Other members of the family were also...

Buried in our Anderson Shelter

She came to the house to make sure we were OK and found that the debris from the bombing had completely...

War in East Anglia

One evening he was walking me home when we looked up and saw a German aircraft flying very very low and in...

gimme shelter.....

My parents had not finished work on the "Anderson Shelter " in the back garden, so they had an...

War Day 1 11.10 am

My doll's pram was in the vestibule at the bottom of the stairs - with wonderful light coming in...

Living Under Occupation - Entertainment

The only film shows were of German films and the local entertainments always had to provide front seats for...

Working in London

Jack was living in London when war broke out... He vividly remembers the ground "bounmcing" up and...

Childhood Memories

My Grandma took in an evacuee called Phyllis, which I remember. My father was in bomb disposal, he gave me...