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Mum explained that I was often ill, she had to visit my Granny and help her, my Dad was a serving soldier,...
There were strangers there and I didn't like the city -I longed to be back in Moira in the countryside...
We used to get meat pies on coupons from the Medway Pie Shop in Gillingham High Street. ET: There used to...
Mum received the dreaded customary telegramme from the war office, and later Dad's medals and a letter...
When I go to my friends home there was a message saying my husband had gone back to Workington but I still...
Mum and Dad had only enjoyed eighteen months of marriage when war was declared, their son John only eleven...
During the times I was staying in Whitehaven I can remember going swimming from the beach and in the...
My brother's German was called Wilhelm, William in English, which was my brother's name but he was...
I was educated by Japanese nationalism that Japan is the nation of God. He asked about 2,000 American...
I posted a message along the lines of “ Looking for Lee Haynes in Missouri, He had a brother named...
I was born at Longdon Common near Shrewsbury , Shropshire and was 12 1/2 when war broke out . There were...
When Manchester was bombed, Dad worked double shifts he was an engine driver tacking goods for the...
Our town was one of the first casualties as it was on the border of then Poland occupied by Germany and...
It took Connie a long time to overcome her grief losing her mother, sister and husband during the war...
Whilst Mum and Dad were courting they moved on several times and then they moved about 10 miles away to a...
David belonged to the Home Guard in Okehampton but he had to stay at the station. The first night we went...
Mr Jack Jones, of the Rhymney Valley, was captured by the Japanese after the British Army were ordered to...
When I read these books about the war of people who had been in it and who had responsible jobs like major...
He took Albert on and, when he turned up at home, he told my mother that he had a German prisoner in...
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