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My boyhood memories of WW2 pt 2

Mum had told my sister and I beforehand that Uncle George was missing presumed killed in action in Italy,...

Morale of the German forces at the end of the occupation of Guernsey

Now on one of the occasions when Theo was over here, and Paula his wife, I said, Untofficier Einmal, his...

Life in an Irish Border Town

They brought passengers and they brought food, and similarly they brought it back from Dublin down here......

A Met Assistant's story

I had one asset, however; while hitch-hiking about on leave, I would pick on a house that looked as if its...

Snowy in the frozen north

As a survivor when asked he talked of jumping from the Hardy to the rescue ship. He had affection for the...

London Calling

It was, of course, a punishable offence to listen to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ - the broadcast always began with the words...

Exhuming the Fallen

My dad, Frank Pickett, was born in Axford, Wiltshire,in 1906 but moved to Trowbridge with his parents,...

What I Remember of the War in the Netherlands - Chapter One

We were sent a German farmers son from Bremerhaven, called Johann Schulz. The German's immediately...

"Doing our bit for the War effort"

During the war every Saturday and Sunday my Mum and sisters and I took cakes and tea and sandwiches making...

Mervyn Sampson

A lot of them used to frequent our pubs in Station Road - the Berkeley Arms and Fountain Hotel. My Auntie,...

My VJ Day Proposal

Then for weeks after that at breakfast Mum would say “I wonder what poor Arthur is doing today? That...

Lost & Found

CROSHER — George, killed in France about My 24th 1940 aged 32, dearly loved husband of Dora, darling...

15) Shake and Shake...

That incidentally taught me a very useful lesson in cross infection because the night staff had their milk...

A Family at War from Sharnbrook

We were from local town called Sharnbrook in Bedfordshire and yet it seemed that we worked all around the...

Snail races in Kidderminster

My mum's youngest brother, Uncle Henry, was killed in Italy, on the 9th May 1945. My auntie worked in...

FIRST LOVE ONLY LOVE

He didn't want to leave me standing, he sent an envoy, Raymond Pinchin... Ray's sister in law,...

The Blockade of Leningrad

My granddad survived the Blockade of Leningrad. He was born in Leningrad and when WWII started, he was only...

Experiences of a Land Girl who married a POW

My boyfriend, Cyril Tabb from Enniscaven in Cornwall joined the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in...

Intack Farm

I was courting Harold at the time and his father didn't fill in the necessary forms for exemption for...

After the Liberation of Guernsey

And because the Little Russel was still mined, we had to come all round this way, I can't think of the...

Fred Roberts

In November 1942 Fred was sent with two other navy personnel to Chepstow. She said that it was not love at...

Kathleen Cockcroft's Story

I joined the Land Army; we wore brown knee length corduroy trousers, cream shirts and green pullovers. I...

The War in Holland as told by my mother to her grandchildren.

England and France were already at war with Germany while Holland was not, as it was a neutral country and...

My War Story

Maureen was very lucky that her house had not been bombed because Redcar had only one direct bombing on the...

V. E. Day

His army friend Stuart was still stationed in Leicester and he very unselfishly called round and took me,...

Rebuilding the Belfast community after the Blitz

And I remember before the war, Jewish children coming to Clifton park Avenue... But Clifton Park Avenue,...