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Family Memories

My Dad was in the ARP in other words he was dragging people out of bombed houses and saw probably more...

It鈥檚 a small world

His aunt Evelyn, his father's sister who had also emigrated with the family to Canada, came to England...

Internment as a Briton, in war-time Europe

At around the same time, my father and brother were transferred to a prison in Paris, along with about...

Repulse Bay

George Robert Heath was born at 4, Sunnyside, Westhorpe, Southwell. George joined the Army in 1936 as a...

Belfast and Wales memories of the war

While he was in the army, I went to Meadowslea Hospital in Penyffordd... Harold was in the army, going...

MY WEDDING WAS POSTPONED

My fianc茅 was sent to France and about 6 months later I got news that he had been taken prisoner of...

In the Merchant Navy

During the war I was in the Merchant Navy. I said I was seventeen and a half, when I was really sixteen...

My husband, the POW- Part One

My husband John Woolfrey worked on the railway in Thailand, while he was a POW. While he was in Singapore,...

Wartime farming

Farmers were given orders and told how much wheat, potatoes and sugar beet to grow. Milking was done by...

Trainee Teacher during the German Occupation of Guernsey

So the Education under Mr Archie Winterflood - you'll probably come across his name 鈥� he was in...

Edie's Memories

About 1944, I remember one night my friend Bella, who had a twin sister Sarah, came to ask if I wanted to...

The loss of a father

Ernest Lee was the school caretaker, he had married late in life & had no children of his own, he went...

My Hero

I lived with my mother Elizabeth, brother Thomas and my father Jan in Manchester. I am very proud of my...

DOROTHY WALSH ON LEEDS RAILWAY

As the trains were arriving or leaving, the 'yanks' as they were known, would shout 'Hey...

Victory in Europe was Announced

"I was travelling down, I had been up to see the boys on leave, and I was travelling down on the train,...

Boscombe Bournemouth and Mercias memories part 2

I came down the stairs to see Mummy hugging Leo in the hall鈥︹�滿y son, my son鈥濃��.what...

Dora Barlow's War

We had our honeymoon in Blackpool 鈥� we were in an attic room and just before we went to bed I...

My Dad鈥檚 Story

My story is about my Dad, he passed away three years ago and he was a Prisoner of War who escaped from...

20) My little bucket and I

They were kept down in one of the big orthopaedic wards on a shelf, and one night I had to go down...

5) The Miners

The Miners used to come in with horrific injuries, and we had these miners reception area- and they used to...

The disappearing shoes.

My other pen friend was Tom Penny, he won the Military Medal for bravery, this was not given to officers...

War comes to Washington,C.D.By James Hepplewhite

In 1941 one Saturday I attended my cousin's wedding to a Mr Billy Holt.They were married in the...

My Father's War

World War 2 Childhood Memories No.1

I regularly received from him, letters and airgraphs, these were letters which had been photocopied and...

A New World

Driffield was my home, I didn`t know much else, we were working people, Mam and Dad worked for others...

Marriage and Family Life

Everything was arranged, cousins were to be bridesmaids and that sort of thing and then the war started and...