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Margaret Mills - wartime memories of Belfast

One man, a Polish Jew, Dr Hans Weil came to live in our street while the church got a passage for him...

A Chance newspaper Article

It was in early summer 2005 that one of our local news papers, the Shropshire Star, printed an article...

My Parents were Interned

We were good friends with an English family living in Port Erin... We travelled as a whole family- with my...

Treated To New Frocks And Boots.

During the war my brothers, sisters and myself were evacuated from Derby to Stanley Common to stay with a...

SCALLIONS AND SPAM - Violet's story

When the first bomb went down I was in the ARP that night and my sister and mother were in the house....

Agnes's Love Story

Alexander's bus station was in the Main Street, Stirling, just a small office. When Jimmy came home on...

You’ll be able to see your Auntie Floss!

It turned out that Auntie Floss had married a Mr William Sanger and had a son, Jeffery Sanger. My new Uncle...

Longstone Local History Group - `I was dropping supplies and paratroops into Burma' Servicemen remember

A7887487 Roy Finney's Story: A7887784 Frank, A and S Hurst: A7888396 Flames of Sheffield: A7888657...

Hospital Nursing:soldier & civilian

Idid a lot of nursing on the maturnity ward, aling with the mid-wife... When these irregular postcards...

A Cooks Travels In The A.T.S.

I was then posted from York to Leeds and promoted, we were stationed at a very large hotel right in the...

I was at school when the war broke out

The Dentist, Mr Morris on the Shankill Rd, was aware of my state and pain as he continued to inject my gum...

We served tea, coffee, sandwiches and TLC!

The DLI were succeeded by The Devon Regiment at Westwick Camp and then by The Dorsets ~ about six months...

Barclays Bank, Dried Eggs and Fire Watching

I was at the Methodist Church in The Square, Dunstable, when the minister announced at 11 o'clock that...

Wartime Visitors to Hayle, West Cornwall

It was a Sunday, and I was with all the other children in the choir stalls at Hayle Methodist Church... The...

Family Stoicism, and the Story of Italian Brown Rice

De-fascism programme, Italy After treatment for shell-shock my father was judged not fit for active service...

Yanks in Cornwall

At school I remember the kids liked to touch my hair and call me Golliwog, a word you don't hear now,...

Run Romans Run!

My eighth great grandfather was Alexis Nicholas Dionysus Varrakalion who was a freedom fighter when the...

Fleeing from Czechoslovakia to Britain in Spring 1939 - Part Two - Dr. Mandler was appointed to Kettering Hospital.

Fleeing from Czechoslovakia to Britain in Spring 1939 - Part Two — Dr. Mandler was appointed to...

Surviving in Occupied France

From Schoolboy to Soldier

They were going to India; Burma The Green Howards had 2 battalions out there already. I remember on my...

Your story edited and categorised

There was rice to cook, which seemed simple enough: boil water, add rice, wait til done. As, though, the...

Memories of My Brothers

They were there until the Germans bombed Dunkirk and Andrew was taken into Germany's hands. We were...

WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part fourteen)

Mum has offered to come up and look after Mother to give me break so we hope to be able to arrange...

Adventures of a Land Army Girl in Sussex

I joined the Women's Land Army in June 1940, I trained at the Agricultural College at Plumpton to be a...

Buried Alive

My brother Robert went to live with my Gran in 39, Hawksley Avenue, and I went to live in Dart Square with...

As a cook I dreaded finding rats at the bottom of the porridge pot!

The last hangman in the country was stationed at Deerbolt and had occasionally to go to perform his task...