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A Stoker in the Trinidad Royal Naval Volunteer Reserves

Lionel was in the Trinidad Royal Naval Volunteer reserves during 1942 — 1944. The Fleet Air Arm from...

Vasco and Marcello work on the land - an unbroken link today

Nora was well-trained by this time, and was ‘in charge’ of Marcello and Vasco. They were a...

Love over the hot-plate!

I volunteered for the WAFF when I turned 21 in 1940 and was put into the kitchens as a cook and butcher...

Documents Sent from Thailand

When the bombing around Clapham Junction where we lived got bad Mum took Dorothy Peter and me to stay with...

A Manx Civilian Child Living in Camp Rushen

He often took me on patrol around the Village and when required we accompanied Dr Bursu, the archeologist...

My Mothers Journey

As the train sped south, the weather became much warmer, and the forests of Siberia were left behind... The...

The Change War Made

A great thing was to get an old parachute and you cut it up and make lots of things from it —...

Memories of the war in Plymouth

There were massive rooms in Gifford Terrace, so we had my brother's friend Huey as a lodger... My mum...

War memories of Gwyneth Hopkins

My Aunt Flo Hopkins who lived at Landscape House and she had an American Transport officer who was Billeted...

R&R for a Nurse in Belfast

The food wasn't bad in the army. Not all in the army, there were civilians as well....

Bert Williams

It was Easter Monday in 1941 and we all went to St. John the Baptists Church in Newport for an Easter...

I escaped the Russians and met my husband

The lorry was going round to different villages collecting girls so that there would be girls to dance with...

Accompanying Robert Docker, with song

The soldier was Robert Docker, who was a sergeant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps but who was better...

Babies, Bath and Powdered Eggs

I had to go into a maternity ward that was actually a workhouse- just one big long room, and it was...

Death of a Guernsey Lifeboatman off Jersey

But about a year or so ago, the lifeboat people over here, because I sell flags, and do all I can for...

"A WARTIME CHILDHOOD IN SHROPSHIRE"

My father was a schoolmaster at Madeley Senior School. My father would have been flown out to Canada but my...

Mr & Mrs Walters

He was friends with most of them apart from one, who he said was very mouthy, so Mr Walters threatened him...

Jersey Occupation

My mother ran the Marina Café at Portelet and she received an ultimatum from the Germans, either she...

WAR COMES TO THE TAMAR VALLEY

The men were black Americans, and the officers mostly white Americans — they were billeted in the...

Longstone Local History Group - Longstone Women’s Institute during the Second World War

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

Jaw, Jaw, not War, War

After being extricated with no little difficulty, from the tank, he was taken to hospital at Tidworth, then...

The world would be my oyster

My mum said she had longed to be an adult because the world would be her oyster, and then the war came.She...

A teacher's story

My father, Tom Cope, had to leave his teaching post at Josiah Mason's Orphanage in Birmingham when he...

Return to Guernsey

I met my wife there, in Gloucester, she had a dreadful posting to RAF Records, she was a sergeant, and she...

Our wartime experiences

I would put my bicycle on the back of a Fire Engine at Hollyfield Road Fire Station and would be taken into...

Alfred Flint-Hartle 1909-1983.

Later, with his fathers help he purchased a shop on Dale Road, Buxton which he ran with his brother Tom,...