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Nice American Soldier.

I lived with my parents and younger sister at Claypitt Cottage, Howden, Tiverton, which was the...

Adolf Hitler Strikes again

Germany 鈥攙ersus England ,France, Belgium the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia. In 1942, a German plane...

Clarice's Most Memorable Years

Later I was moved into Germany: Bad-Oeynhausen, then up into Berlin. We were in a big billet in a block of...

Wartime in Creswell

In 1942 we had 10year old twins staying with us, who had been evacuated from Lowestoft and there were other...

Life in the Civil Nursing Reserve

After this we went to the Royal Salop Infirmary but it wasn't long before we were needed at the...

Meg's war

Meg's uncle Alec was what she called a soldier/sailor... Since he was called Alec, Meg and her family...

A Rainbow Wedding

We lived on the Northfield Estate in Dunstable and had to patrol the area in our tin hats, making sure that...

HOW ENGLAND BECAME MY SECOND HOMELAND

The above story refers to Cpl JOHN ASTON 841933 who was stationed at Cardington May, 1941, Kirkham, Lancs....

Rissy's War

A Mr Hayes took over and I didn't settle after that so I left and went to work for the Railway Savings...

Wigston at war

I had been selling poppies since the age of sixteen years and knew exactly why I was selling them but the...

From Newcastle to Gibraltar and back

My father's friend Jim Wilson, who was in the same regiment, was married to a Spanish girl, Anna, who...

A Bitter Sweet Romance

He was kind and generous all the time.One night i opened the door and there was a big Marine standing there...

A Canadian Family In Derby

There were two brothers who were semi recluse who lived not far from us and after the war told me that they...

Homecoming

In rural Anglesey we had been protectd pretty well from the nastier realities of war, though blackout,...

Humes War

A newsagent who brought papers to our village from Berwick 鈥� Upon 鈥� Tweed gave him a lift, said...

Dot Roser's Wartime Memories

Another clear memory is of the German bomber planes being chased away from London and as they flew back to...

Marrying on VJ Day - the first peace-time wedding?

My parents, Ivor Warren and Margaret "Peggy" Dickinson married in Fuller Baptist Church, Kettering...

Separated and in Hiding

When we were invaded on May 10th at 4a.m., I lived in The Hague with my parents, brother Wim, sister Willy...

A Childhood in Burma

The Japanese had started their invasion of Burma, Singapore had fallen and they were moving across to...

Burma to Shropshire

The Japanese had started their invasion of Burma, Singapore had fallen and they were moving across to...

Kisses and Tears

One of Peggy's friends, Meg came round to see her one day in a very overwrought state. On a much...

MEMOIRS OF DOROTHY BAIN

My posting was to be at the Farthing Common, Lyminge, not far away from where I was living, and I was to...

Problems In Holland

Next door to where we lived was a jeweller, he was very friendly, and of German descent, but he was...

Smugglers Restaurant Sompting

Some more about my much loved wartime home.The old place named old Sussex Guest House was empty from out...

working for the American Forces

My brother Seamus and his friend Kevin McFeely got work with the American Forces as trainee waiters and...

鈥淭hat鈥檚 my Daddy!鈥�

My grandmother and my mother told me that this was my Daddy. Jackie's told me her maternal...