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2) Getting used to being on the wards

I was under the age of eighteen — I was seventeen and a half; and the policy was that this age group...

Grandma’s War, by Will Clark

Her younger sister, Susan, was in a cot and there was a contraption to go over the cot. Mary and her sister...

My family During The War

The children were Edith, Evelyn, Ida, James, Harold, Wally, Grace, Reenie, Leslie, Aubrey, Neville, Joan...

Dorothy Parker Wartime Wedding Receptions

I was lucky in having a Mum who was a great cook and organizer, and a dad who had been a chef...

Land Girls in the lettuces

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

'One of my Worst Wartime Memories' as told by Nell Aylett nee Newman.

No place for my lovely son to go with me, and I couldn't leave him in London... Two days before my...

Life in Shepherdswell

Later I saw an advertisement in the Dover local newspaper for a pianist to join 'Duke and his accordian...

‘Guy Fawkes Night’ with the Kiwis

The family and friends of Mr. F Burditt shown in the above photograph are starting with the two men...

VJ Day in Colombo — The whole parade

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

From Hunslet To Farnborough

I worked in the offices of John Fowler's in Hunslet, which manufactured Churchill Tanks. We got a...

Mrs Halls Remembers....

My step-mother worked as a nurse in Brighton and my neighbour Mrs Budd would look out for me. My favourite...

Life of an Islington boy in the war

Our family lived in Islington, but my father was in the Royal Artillery and went to train in Exeter to be...

The story of the 97th General Military Hospital.

We went down from a station in London to Avonmouth... Lizards, frogs and turtles crept into our tent and my...

"The good old days have gone"

Today we went to interview Evaline Wilkinson at Feniscliffe Bank Nursing Home in Blackburn, Lancashire......

Chance encounter

Albert Pasturell came to the village as he had escaped from Jersey and had joined the British Army as a...

Wonderful teenage years in Hereford

We were lucky in Hereford as we didn't really get many bombs although the sirens went off regularly......

He Had Black Hair

When I was nineteen and my husband Rob was twenty one, at the start of the war,I had a baby a few...

Wedding bells in the ward

I volunteered to go to Germany. In Germany as I carried on in the army, I worked in the military...

Donkey carts

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

My story of World War Two

I am 15 as the war begins, my sisters Elizabeth and Josephine were really scared because they told me that...

Royal Visits to Trowbridge

History was in fact being repeated because this was one of the factories visited by King George and Queen...

War Time Honeymoon in Blackpool

My husband to be, Joe Ellis, used to deliver ammunition for the Anti-Air Craft guns in Liverpool and...

Some air raid that was.

Mum put some blankets and stuff in the pram with Sylvie in it and headed off... Then my Mum came down the...

MY FIRST VISIT TO JERSEY ( C.I.)

I left Lea's when I was eighteen to do war work at Desford Aerodrome, for the civilian repair...

Galashiels during the War

The rationing was very a peculiar thing, I remember in Edinburgh being registered for meat with a butcher,...

From Light to Dark

I had been to the Capitol Cinema in Alum Rock with my girlfriend Mary. We had gone to the cinema in...