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A Conscientious Objector Who Served.

My uncle, my father's eldest brother became a conscientious objector on religious grounds and worked...

My Life from the Age of 14 by Jessie Luscombe

Then my Mum was taken ill and she died leaving me with 2 brothers, Terry and Bill, my little sister and a...

My Dad

I don't know if he was called up by initials as he was a B or if it was his occupation -...

WARTIME MEMORIES OF A YOUNG GIRL

Mums face was a picture as he presented her with a Christmas cake, a bag of sugar, which was like gold...

Keep the home fires burning

The start of the German Occupation of Guernsey

So, that would have been Cliff Le Cheminant at the Douit, Ray Caradeuc... We went to Clos Massies, you...

A kindly German

Because a mile further is the small airport, and the Germans will stop you. My sister was better at German...

Charlie's Two-shillings

My brother Charlie got up on Monday morning to go to work and an argument started between him and my dad......

Perpetual Darkness

When you opened your door in the morning it took 5 minutes to get used to the light 鈥� 鈥榣ike a...

Hodnet Hall

On the Tuesday we were evacuated to Hodnet Hall in Shropshire travelling in converted Midland red buses......

Netherlands research

My grandparents sent Irene, Vera Violetta and Dolly and Herbert to Holland in about February 1939. I have...

Good Friends

We got friendly with a girl who was a 鈥淟ootenant鈥� 鈥� Ginny Hopkins, and she was a...

Family Memories

He was in Changi prison camp in Burma... Then she received a Buff card 鈥� Japanese Imperial Army,...

Elsie Blackburn's Story

I lived off St. Matthew St. furthest away, across the railway line, so I had to walk the last bit by...

My War

I also remember the blackout curtains, thick and dark at all the windows. Ration books were used and...

Ferrets versus Bombs

Like so many others, Ann's Mum was fearful for her children in wartime and afraid of the bombs that...

"BROTHERS-IN-ARMS" (The Cartwright Brothers War Service)

My brothers, sister and I were all born in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. CECIL, my youngest brother, seved in...

Growing up between 1939 and 1945

I remember going to school with my Mickey Mouse gas mask, and once on the way home the sirens went off and...

Learning about Granddad's wartime adventures

In the summer of 2000 I travelled from South Shields, where I live, to Whitehaven, Cumbria with my Granddad...

'One Girls Story'

My brother was in the RAF and his wife Maggie and I were in the Women's Land Army... My sister Mary...

Daytrips to Blackpool during the war.

So, when Frank was staying in Preston he would often take Franklin and Maureen to Blackpool for the day....

Memories of Matlock Bath

I sang songs at all the concerts they had at Cromford Court. I'd come marching on to the stage, with my...

Ada Croysdill's Story

I had three brothers, Wilfred, Robert and Jack and two sisters Lilian and Mary... One time they both came...

"THANKS FROM THE BURGERMASTERS OF GOEREE AND OVERFLAKKEE"

At the end of the 2nd World War the Burgermasters of the Island of Goeree and Overflakkee signed a Charter...

'New Motherhood During The War'

My social outings were to the Bedlington Catholic club where a Saturday night dance was held... I only...

"THE CLEAVER BROTHERS WAR SERVICE"

HARRY, my eldest brother served as a medical officer in the Army Medical Corps, in a Hospital in Belfast,...