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The War in the West - A Child's Perspective

Soon came upon our ears the sound that we learned to dread, the characteristic throbbing of aircraft...

How I Lost My Best Friend

I could come home every Saturday afternoon and back to Malang every Monday morning at 5 a.m. Our schools...

My life - Cyril Chapman - part two

The village of Heilly was on a very minor road and we could hear the sound of bombing and gunfire before we...

Torpedoed in the South Atlantic

My brother Peter, ths baby Patrick and I shared our mother's cabin and our replacement 鈥淣anny...

War for a Junior, 1939 - 1941

We stayed in Roby while the 鈥楢dmiral Graf Spee鈥� was sunk and 鈥榃arspite鈥� saw off a...

Memories of a WW2 Evacuee: From Slough to Shropshire

Clive and I used to walk to Tibberton on Sunday afternoon and would go to Sunday School in the church and...

She said "Carol, War Has Been Declared"

Another unpleasant memory was sound of the enemy aircraft overhead at night; the throbbing of the engines...

From rags to riches part 1

When I was born on the 1st October 1924, my Mum and Dad had three children already, an older sister and two...

Peggy's Wartime Memoriors

One of our friends from Dumfries, Tom, was now in the RAF and stationed nearby so when my godfather's...

Two Adolescent Years-Chamberlain to Blitz -Part One

So that when at the end of September I sat by the wireless in our kitchen, listening to the Prime Minister...

鈥淲e used to Pray for all our Relatives away in the Army鈥�.

My cousin Hugh McGuinness was in the Territorial Army with my Dad and he went away with the 5th Border...

Two Adolescent years-Chamberlain to Blitz Part Two

An interesting view of the situation of the German Army Command is given in the foreword by German General...

鈥淚 Came Back Home To Whitehaven To Help My Mam And Dad鈥�

Ronald and Marie Just before the twins were born in February 1944, Tom went to London and he was Best Man...

Excitement and Fear as a Young Lad.

A lot of them went back to London when the bombing didn't start and during the Blitz in 1940 when the...

Memories of the Second World War 1939-1945: In Norbury

When we returned to Norbury Avenue the windows were soon blown out and just covered with brown paper....

Memories and Extracts from My Mother's Diary 1939-1945

Closing it up and going back to Mum and Dad December 11th Went to Exeter to Recruiting Office at 9 am with...

Raking Over the Ashes and Parts of My Life - As Told to Me by My Parents - Part 1

My mother's brothers and sisters were, George, Jim and baby Robert, her sister's were Doll and Kit....

Me in My Pram. Part One.

Dixie lived with his mum and dad,his two sisters, Kath and Mary, at number 148. Evacuees were kids from...

One Woman's Memories

MAKING FRIENDS Evacuees started to arrive from Southampton and Portsmouth and quite a number found their...

War efforts, evacuation, first baby and rationing

Not all the homes were equally suitable: we were appalled to find some children sleeping in outhouses, on...

World War 2 and My Life in Hull

Beverley was our most frequent destination, since one of Annie's sisters, Laura, and her husband, Rob...

Childhood Memories of a Family at War (Part 2)

Father went down with the SS Ceramic, which had left Liverpool with 600 men, women and children bound for...

A Navy Wife's War

Well Charybdis was already in commission, Scylla had reached the stage when one of the early people, still...

Why am I an only child?

My Dad worked from the age of 15 to 65 at B.C. Floyds in Surrey Street, Littlehampton, where he was the...

John Hudson - A London Family (1939 - 1945)

Perhaps some old soldiers from 1914 expected them to "go over the top" when the whistle blew, but...

Recollections of a London Evacuee in Worcestershire

The war situation then took a turn for the worse with the German Army invading Belgium, Holland and France...