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15 October 2014
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The Adolescent Memories of Stella Ward

Me and my youngest sister who was the baby of the family went back home to help my mom feel better. Before...

Kirkcaldy in WWII

I was 9 when war started and lived in Kirkcaldy in Scotland with my mum, dad and three sisters. Dad smoked...

In Memorial

My 40 year old father had just finished a 12 hour shift at British Aerospace, he was killed as well as my...

Another Life

We were there for quite a few weeks but eventually rented a house in Plymouth because the owners wanted to...

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A child's memory of war

This story was told to my daughter by her grandmother, Dorothy. Two years ago my daughter's year two...

1) (On the quiet, of course)

We lived in a big old house ‘Sutton Villa Farm’ in Meole — it was as you come out of...

Doris in wartime Dover

We lived on a hill in Dover and saw the parachutes landing in France on D-Day. He lived in Cambridgeshire...

Eleanor Jones

The O-in_C Pay office called me in to his office and asked me t o go to Washington, unfortunately I had to...

My Brother Fred

Fred was 16 years of age when he came to us and had been living with his parents in Chatham, which had...

The Cable Layer

I stayed with Pluto for 3 years on HMS Abatos based at Southampton. My parents were from Wales, so my Mum...

Memories of Old

Family: A lot of my family members were involved in the war; my brother-in-law was a prisoner of war in...

Our War: Unusual To Go To 1939-45 War On A Horse.

Regularly going to camp in the summer at Helmsley and Sandbeck Park, the horses were stabled in Norbury...

My father's life in the Army-Part twoicon for Story with photo

As well as receiving his medals, my Dad sent two maps that gave the places where the V1 and V2's fell...

Girls Training Corps

In 1939 when World War 2 was declared, I was living with my parents, Hannah-Lilley and Alfred Bamford, and...

Pigs and Metrication — Food shortages and the Germans during the Occupation

Edited Transcript of Margaret Le Cras interviewing Mrs Evelyn Bryce. My father had a greenhouse with...

My V.E Day Baby

There was no honeymoon, as no-one was allowed near the coast and we had no money apart from 8 shillings, so...

Spies in Achnasheen

My mother has always told the story of how, on reaching Achnasheen Railway Station in the Highlands, the...

OVER HERE

My name is Josephine Dodman I lived in East Anglia during the war in a village near Bury St. Edmonds. I can...

1939 Start Of W.W.2icon for Story with photo

The German hordes were streaming into the low countries on their way through Europe and everyone said that...

A Young German Prisoner of War

One winter Sunday we were at my uncle and aunts and she asked if we wanted to meet "Vanna". As a...

My Brave Cousin

They told his mum, my Aunty Tapp, what had happened. I am so proud of the men who took part in the...

War dehumanises us all!

The royal navy and merchant navy kept us provided with food and materials they have never received full...

By the War Divided

They then moved in the early thirties to Woodlands St Mary, in Berkshire Rex Walter Vellender, my dad,...

An Occupation wedding

We were at Eldad, and Pastor Duncan he was looking after the three, Vazon, Delancey, and Eldad,...

War Wedding In Staple Hill, Bristol

My friend Kathleen was married on her 18th birthday on the 22nd April 1944, to Sgt Les Cotton RAF rear...

Anne Dunn's memories of wartimeicon for Story with photo

My father was a Farmer/Market Gardener in and around the village of Ash, near Aldershot, Hampshire....

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