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Land Army Memories from Walkington and Welwick

I lived with an old lady in Walkington, a lovely lady called Mrs McLean, and she had an old gentleman used...

Vera Lynn signed my wedding photograph

Douglas was allowed a brief visit to tell me he couldn't see me because the Ministry of Defence had...

The end of the war and the liberation in Guernsey

We cycled along the sea front, and parked our bikes, which my father chained up along the sea front by the...

BITTER WAR

Once the sirens went off, you got dressed, put your hat on and went looking for incendiary bombs... I was...

'Singing For ENSA'.

He asked me if he could get in touch with me and I told him I worked in the Town Hall at...

Longstone Local History Group - One family's war - Part 1

Longstone Local History Group - One family's war Part 1 by Sheila Hurst. A7887487 Roy Finney's...

Stories my Dad (Fred Hockin) told me

Fred's Captain, knowing that he was a local man, sent a dispatch rider to Dorothy's address in the...

Glynn Howe - Back Home

Glynn's wartime memories have been recalled by his brother Gerry Howe. Read the first part of...

The War in Germany - Chapter 2

Many, many people were sucked into the horror that became Germany by fear - fear for their families, of...

The Mottram's War Effort

At the beginning of the war St. Dunstan's moved from Newhaven on the south coast to Shropshire and were...

French Resistance

It is now known that my mother, Olive Sage, nee Watts played an important role in the French Resistance....

Reunited An Evacuee Returns After 60 years!

Grace and Joe had four children, when at age 23, I was to be married, I had a great wish to have...

GRIM AND BEER - IT

As Christmas approached he wrote to his darling wife saying how much he loved her and how the Festive...

Evelyn Collyer's (Nee Collier) Wartime Memories

We lived in Freshwater Road in Drayton, near Portsmouth, and when the air-raids started the council came...

Miles apart - being married in the war

David's Story I was living in Westminster when the war broke out... David had to go back to Trowbridge...

An English family in occupied France

The Germans arrived in the area soon after the invasion of France, and my parents should have been arrested...

Mrs Corrothers Saying goodbye forever

The Japanese, just this card — and it was printed, and all he had to put in, he was a British...

WAR YEARS IN MOUSEHOLE

My name is Mrs Kathleen Pascoe and I was born seven years before the outbreak of War in Mousehole, a small...

Strange Charm

The war did not have a huge effect on Bicester town because the air-force base bore the brunt of this...

Some lists of working groups in Wartime Pontesbury, as recollected by Clive Griffiths.

Mona Evans married a Sergeant RAOC Molly Hartshorne married Major Hassell RAOC Molly Jones Brookman married...

Beachcombing in Peterhead

My father was also in the 1st World War, in the Gordon Highlanders, and knew all about Dunkirk. Then he...

Memories of the war in Poland

My first recollection is of German soldiers walking into my grandmother's house where I lived with my...

I became a cook and hated missing my 21st birthday!

I moved around a lot, starting off in Towyn in Wales, then Aclinton and then Middleton St. George where I...

Seen from both sides

I was going with someone at the time - Gerald from Leeds, he was in the military police at Donnington, and...

Family life in wartime

Born in 1928, Tom lived in Coundon and was educated at King James Grammar School, Bishop Auckland. Tom also...

GLENDA's memories

We had to have our dog, a cocker spaniel called Dinah, put to sleep as evacuees could not take pets. Next...