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Twin brothers demobbed from the 6th Dorset regiment and return to Guernsey

Edited transcript of a video recording of Stanley Bichard interviewed by John Gaisford, 12/3/2005...

Since I was Born and Bred.

I often laugh to myself when I think I had never been near to a cow, and girls were needed for dairy...

Japanese Prisoner of War Daughter's Story

My dad was stationed in Bury St Edmunds and Mum and I went to live near the barracks. Dad was captured on...

Mrs Roberts Remembers

In wartime Arle, Mr. Roberts was an ARP Warden as was Mr. Raechel and Mr. Peart. At that time Mrs. Roberts...

The beginning and the beyond - a snapshot of an evacuee's life during WW2"

As an eight year old boy in 1939, my family life in an Islington, London, tenement came to an abrupt end...

AMY BROWN'S STORY

Amy left school at 14 and a half years age and her first job was in the Bon Marche, Chepstow. Amy remained...

My ration book was blue

My Aunt Kathleen's dog, a black and white collie, was taken into the Canadian army. One day a telegram...

Young, Foolish, And in Love

After four long, hard days of driving, Mom finally arrived in Oxnard, California, not far from Los Angeles,...

Christmas Party at Wolverley Hospital.

Christmas Party at Wolverley Hospital. In the winter of 44/45 all the names of the kids at my school,...

Miners show hospitality to soldiers

These included RAF at Firbeck, and Army at Carlton, Blyth, Worksop and Carburton. Our meat included...

With the Trans-Jordan Frontier Force

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

Proffitt Family Carting Buisness 1908-1918

I can remember when the carter's brought their team wagons and horses back home to the stables after a...

KENNETH REED'S LIFE STORY DURING WW2

My mum worked at the Smith and Nephews factory making bandages, and I was transferred from Mayberry Infants...

A thankyou from Berlin

I recall the long train journey from Wimbledon, where two of our train's carriages were bombed, via...

The Wrong Train

My husband Tom Morgan was doing his basic training in Malvern and I travelled up from Ewyas Harold to see...

Basic Training in Chelmsford

Oh yeh, I was in Eygpt for two years, that was after the war finished.I did two years in Eygpt, and then...

Jim Swanton's War

Most people back home worked in ammunition, and lots including women went to work at the Royal Ordnance...

The White Cliffs of Dover

I was leaving Ostend, leaving my father, my sister and my darling husband on my way to England, because my...

There are many many more stories

George Lord was the son of Thomas Lord and Alice Poynton... George is interred in the Whyalla Cemetary...

Bert Wesley

They were bombs, I ran back into the house, ran up stairs to tell my dad... My right leg was hanging off...

Old Imitation Leather Handbag

After he'd passed, clearing, sorting to do I took the bag down and spilled open inside, old imitation...

Return to Guernsey from Clipstone

Patrick John Harper interviewed by Matt Harvey 15/4/2005 Transcription by John David of a Video recording...

THE LOSS OF A BEST FRIEND

I continued to go to school in Penge with my best friend Betty Carter, but after a year or two the air...

A pub with no beer!

There he would have a pint whilst the publican filled his jug which he would bring back for Mum and himself...

War, The Hardship Years

I could not imagine ever having to fight in a war, and my dad's memories about having to listen to his...

Burford; My Very Favourite Place

School address before coming to Witney area : Ashford County School for Girls, Maidstone Road, Ashford,...