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A very hard worker

Worse than hell at times So many don't realise Spending a well-earned penny Friends together A real...

Assorted Memories of Hertfordshire

I did night work at the munitions factory at Waltham Abbey for about a year, leaving when I became...

Evacuees and Stew!

We had evacuees staying with us for the whole of the war — the Grandmother and most of the children...

Chopin in Swansea

I grew up in Swansea, high up above the town, two streets from where Dylan Thomas lived... The German...

My Report About World War Two

My Great-Grandma was worried her family in London would get bombed by the Germans. My Grandama's Daddy...

My Stepfather's 25 War Medals

He had been awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery and in total he had 25 medals in his cabinet....

My Family

I am writing this story about my mother and father who took over a WMCA for service men after we got bombed...

Air Raid Shelter in The Garden

Told to Christine Barker at VE Day Celebrations in Beveley 2005 by Sybil Clay nee Harvey Sarah Harvey. My...

No Body to bury

Albert lived on Tank Street at Riddings in Derbyshire with his mum and dad, Sarah and Fred Hibbert... The...

Coventry Days

We lived on an estate and has an Anderson Shelter in the back garden... After November, there was no water...

Guernsey & Jersey

My uncle, a Guernsey farmer from the thirties until the seventies, left the island only on a very few...

A Mother's Grief

My mother suddenly screamed out and burst into tears and said that my brother Roy, who was serving in...

Recognition for the Unsung Heroines

The most profound memories are of lost loved ones - My two elder sisters Winnie and Magsie worked in the...

Family Memories

My Grandmother had to travel from Liverpool to Wrexham to see my Mum. I can remember him showing me a...

D-Day For My Mother-In-Law!

Rita married Terry and they moved to Bognor Regis in 1980 - Ada and Alf retired to the Isle of Wight in...

Growing up in Ross during the War

I worked two nights a week in the fire station in Ross where the Phoenix Theatre is now... I spent weekends...

Family Memories

I had one brother who was a regular, one who was a PoW in Japan, one in the Desert Rats, one in...

An Unexpected Visitor

My brother who was in the Army was posted at a centre in Gateshead, where he was a Bren gun carrier...

Bombing of Bristol Docks 11th April 1941

My mother has told me the story of her grandfather Charles Samuel Thomas who worked on Bristol Docks during...

A Death and Birth in 1942

The month of March in 1942 saw great sadness and a little joy for our family for on March 11th my cousin...

I Remember

We caught a tram from old kent road to Waterloo Station where we caught a train and ended up at Yeovil...

Flanders Road Bombing

The bomb fell in Flanders Road, number 5....

A Sting in the Tail

He quickly went down the stairs and grabbed the coal shovel, and went back upstairs. The man hit the...

A Tin of Balloons

The Americans at the airbases near us, such as Parham and Debach, used to take all their rubbish to a dump...

My First Banana.

His name was Able Seaman Frederick Arthur Garrett and he served on H.M.S. Blackwood... He died Aged 21 on...

What Happened to Your Hair?

During WW2 he was based in Burhma, India and also involved in the Dunkirk Landings... I remeber father...