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A visit to St Malo during the German Occupation of Alderney

Edward Rowe, aged sixteen, was on a working party in Alderney during the German Occupation....

Remembering Other People's Hell (1)

Ships coming across the seas with food, required protection from the enemy firing them and often these...

HOW TOM GOT MARRIED

I couldn't leave the area, because of my job, and so I picked up the evening paper and looked in the...

Banjolele-- War Travels of Father in Law

My grandparents bought my father George a ukelele when he joined the RAF during World War Two... One...

Liberation from the German occupation of Guernsey

Well, we heard of course VE day, the Germans surrendered, so Mrs Bisson and I decided to teach the children...

The Hopkins Family - Part Five

You always had to queue up and while you did you looked at the various cuts of meat in the window and...

Early memories of a War baby

My Dad was in a reserved occupation - making aircraft parts - but served in the Home Guard, mostly guarding...

Nancy Sunter's Countryside War

I had an older stepbrother, Henry Waddington, in the Grenadier Guards.He served in North Africa and...

A Wartime Pregnancy

From July 18th, 1940 I was left alone in Gillingham, with my 14 month old son Michael, and I was also...

A fond Fairwell

I understood later that the telegram contained news that her husband Syd my Father a Private inthe RAOC had...

Working in the Landarmy in Forest Hall

I lived with lots of the other landarmy girls in a big house, which had tennis courts and everything you...

10) The Nurses Home

We lived in a home which was the nurses home- it had the most beautiful sitting room looking out on to...

Building a church altar

My Auntie Dorrie was a Land Girl in Burnley during the Second World War and she then became a wren. Uncle...

My hero

One such lad at 22 was evacuated from the Dunkirk beaches, returned home to wed his sweetheart and within a...

Penge Memorial

At 11 o'clock on 30th June 1944, a Flying Bomb came over and landed on Oak Grove Road, Penge. She had...

Gunner George Arthur Wilson-Part 2

One day mum was sat on the bus with my sister and myself, when a passenger said to her 'What lovely...

My Mum's Struggle

Also from March to October mum had at least 7 Irishmen to cook and was for so she had her hands full,...

Under Japanese rule in Hong Kong

I later went to a convent in France at Elbeuf near Rouen and taught while I was there before travelling as...

The Sadness of War

The eldest of my three younger brothers went bang into the Air-Force at the outbreak of the war, which was...

My Mum - A George Medallist

You will be thrilled to know that my mum and I met Queen Elizabeth in Toronto in 2002 during her Golden...

Rhodesia Rescue

My father, Squadron Leader John Samuel Herring, born in Middlesex, was in the Royal Air Force, based in...

Little Luxuries

She used to visit my parents, because they were staying with Whitney Straight, who lived in the village...

1939-1945: Wartime Memories

Lots of people worked in munitions factories in Kirkby... I've got four children, lots of grandchildren...

My family's war experiences

We all lived with my grandparents, along with their youngest son, Henry, at 2 Prospect cottages, Prospect...

Wheatfield to Bangor

My father had a Club in Belfast - in Pottinger's Entry, called The Belfast and Counties Club - also...

War time experience in Northumberland

When the war broke out, they were the first to be called up and sent off to France, where John Lawson,, was...