My father's father-in-law, Leonard Armfield, a Quaker, was also a conscientious objector in the First...
An oral history interview with Mrs. Irene Dawson about her wartime experiences in Barnsley, South Yorkshire...
We had a few Polish Prisoners Of War in Swindon, it was full of Prisoners Of War, but it was just...
These memories of Darvel during the war were told to East Ayrshire Library staff at Darvel World War 2...
By a strange coincidence Mum was making American doughnuts that day - the ones with the hole - but Albert,...
Instead of that, my brother and Frank cycled to Shifnal, and I arranged the chapel wedding because we lived...
My friends and I read with great interest and pleasure the fact that our fellow citizens, after the news...
Although we were enjoying ourselves, we had to leave the party in full swing and catch the bus back to...
My Dad's name was Oswald Irwin Collier and he married Zoe Richardson, November 4th, 1939 at St....
Miss Smith, a Teacher at Bemrose School in Derby , appealed for any families who would be able to entertain...
When I left school at fourteen, I was employed as a milkman, first delivering loose milk in cans with...
This war time story is dedicated to our Mother and Father Alf and Joan Constable. Attached is an air letter...
In the hotel the landlady had taken all the carpets up and removed any decorative or luxury items- they...
Also, German prisoners of war came daily in a truck to work on the farm and were fed at lunch time at...
When Montgomery and Eisenhower went across the Channel, my husband Cyril and a few others in the unit went...
My mother, Kathleen and Margaret went to live with Auntie Cassie in Craigmillar... . Prior to this,...
We walked down past Bolton Pauls which was an aircraft factory and my sister-in-law said I should go in if...
We would go to Hayle railway station and see Dad off on the train back to his billet, after home leave. We...
Originally it was just for the one day, on the Thursday, and it attracted enormous crowds, for cricket,...
The telegram said: 鈥淩egret to inform you that your husband No. 1455814 Warrant Officer Cyril James...
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