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WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part seventeen)

I was taken ill at the office on Friday, Mack, Mrs C & Katie took me home with Mr Hacks driving. Saw...

EAST ACTON: NELL COATES, QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA

There were two letters to Nell from the ‘State Children Department’, Brisbane B7. If any of...

Nursing in London and My Future Husband's Escape from Romania

Eventually Jozef became a naturalized British citizen and later changed his surname to Kaye, which he...

Harold's tea-time

Harold Clitherow Margrett was born in 1899 in Birmingham, the only son of Frederick Clitherow Margrett and...

Home Away From Home

Mum and dad listened to their problems, usually about girlfriends, - wrote to their parents and...

H.m.S. Glorious - and Afterwards

So the house was let, the furniture put in store and we went back to Perth to be with Granny and Papa....

My Grandad Bernard Hogan.Royal Artillery Gunner, Malta and Italy.

Sometime in the mid 1930`s he met my grandmother Ellen Owens. Ellen was the Daughter of John and Sarah Ann...

Evacuation of School Children-June 1940 (Part Two)

Margaret and Kathleen Wright, seven year old twins, stayed with Joyce Johnson and her father at Kyte's...

Hard Times

The army took over many of the new empty house for the forces, food was on ration the air raid warden...

Mending Dreams Broken by the War

I moved away from Ashford, because I had the opportunity to go and work at Kent Headquarters in...

Looking After Mum

I was brought up in an Irish Catholic family and lived in Deptford with my father, mother, brother Jimmy,...

My Hero

After a ‘Wings for Victory’ procession at Darlaston, which I think involved a church service,...

My Family Through The War

I have a Christmas card addressed to me from my brother in law who was in Italy — it's a map of...

He'd packed Douglas Bader’s new false legs

The elder, Uncle Jim, served as a Fireman. Uncle, Joe, Uncle Bob and Uncle Charlie served in REME, each...

Olive Story - Helping the Dambusters

As well as our routine repair work, our engineers at Sywell also did some Top Secret work for the...

Stan Grosvenor, the early days in Downside Road, Middlesbrough; Part 2 — Bombs, blackout and a new brother

Arthur's dad, a Warrant Officer Telegraphist and also called George, was away with the Royal Navy,...

I sent messages to radar stations up and down the country!

Then to Harrogate and trained as a telephonist, after which I was posted to East Thorpe Hall in Malton, the...

CONSCRIPTION

While at Catterick, Jean worked with one of the German POWs — his name was Hans and he seemed such a...

THE W.V.S (Woman’s Voluntary Service

In February 1942 a branch of the W.V.S was formed in Mullaglass with Mrs Thornberry our President Miss...

He hadn't got the telegram, saying when we would be married!

After being de-mobbed in Birmingham Madge went home, but when she became pregnant Tom's Mum asked her...

Because of a bad line, I once sent a guy to the wrong place!

Then to Harrogate and trained as a telephonist, after which I was posted to East Thorpe Hall in Malton, the...

Wilma'a 21st Birthday Party (liberation time, Holland 1945)

From ribbons I made the British, American and Dutch flags. Everybody turned up again with more soldiers and...

Aylsham WI War Work

In 1943 a gift of seeds from the Canadian W.I. was distributed by drawing of tickets apart from tomato...

German Plane Crash in New Aberdour

We were living in the Police House in a small village called New Aberdour about a mile from the coast of...

What I did during the War

I got in touch with relatives and were sent with nine children to Burnham on Sea away from London... We...

Becoming a woman in wartime

The very first air raid sirens I heard was when my boyfriend took me to the Ulster Hall for All-in...