Before WW2 broke out I worked as a Comptometer Operator at Darlington's Co-operative Society's head...
Phil was always reminding Muriel that she wet his trousers outside the Tower of London. Muriel's...
My husband and I went to the same school and when the war came he went into the Navy and his ship...
We got to know Theo's family — there's a photo I must show you after, what I call my German...
Harry was a pianist and he used to go into all the French pubs and play, and all of his friends got...
He managed to get out of occupied Prague in 1938 and went to Paris where he worked as a doctor for the...
Whilst there I used to go to the forces clubs, one in particular was the Stage Door Canteen Club for...
Born in 1890 in Brighton Sussex Harry Cowley recounts the society he lived in around and during the time of...
There were many shapes in plasters: legs, arms, torso and all bandages lovely and clean. As the...
In 2000 my story as a QA Sister in India was printed in the local paper the "Shropshire Star" and...
One that he had been killed at a place called Bon-Rapeux, a little crossroads, and the man who buried him...
After this letters began arriving, some with pictures from the prison camps, one signed to my sister and I...
January 22rd: Went to Dorothy's with Harold and Les... Met and fell in love with Harold, met Les, Wilf...
It was 1939, when I was working as a Ladies Maid to Admiral Maddons daughter, who lived in Forrest Road,...
Mum struggling to push a huge pram with two children inside, Margaret aged three years and Bessie just nine...
A friend then covered the nightdresses with the muslin, which she made into overdresses, and hid the joins...
I had no insight into the pain I would cause my family members by asking my Uncle to speak to you about...
Longstone Local History Group - `There were exercises on the moor' Home defence remembered by Ernie...
As Mum had no coal in the house and Dad was due home on leave, the lady of the house gave her...
I wrote to the Beaver Falls local paper… with my story, some pictures and a request that they put a...
Bombing started in Birmingham and then Biddy went to Coalville. From 1941-1945 while Biddy was in...