The day before embarcation for the USA my mother went by car to the RAF camp to complete some...
We had no sewage system in Long Melford until 1959; we had bucket toilets which were emptied once a week...
Leave was precious, my husband was a Gunnery Officer in a cruiser, ‘Russian Convoys’, we came...
*1 Joe Lester was a reservist in a Tank Regiment in September 1939, having taken the Jack and Daisy Byrnes...
The front was all smocked by hand from the neckline to the waist and was made from some material that my...
During 1939 when war began I was pregnant with my third child, it was late in my pregnancy and my baby...
When war broke out she was 19 years old and living with her parents and two sisters in a tiny cottage at...
The firm I was working with was called Vandenbergs and Jurgens, Limited, they were the Stork margarine,...
My mother and I had been living in South Burma planning to eventually meet my father, who had been...
I lived in Royton and a mill used for the storage of cotton got a direct hit from an incendiary bomb and...
Dad was World War One Veteran and an A.R.P. and would conscientiously don his tin hat and patrol the...
My sister and I were chosen by Mrs Crees of the Red Cottages, who said to my sister, “would you like...
My Dad was in the Cheshire regiment, based in Chester for twenty two years. My dad met his own brother in...
There were four of us, and my mum used to make lovely Yorkshire puddings, and rice puddings. Mum and Dad...
"I was called up to join the ATS in December 1942 and there I was, a little forlorn creature on Temple...
Here in our new found freedom of peacetime there was still sadness of the war with Japan until they were...
The troops were down at Staunton Hall and they'd have dances in the recreational room. In the village...
My father kept a small pub here in Beaminster in Dorset. If you wish to contact them the address is...
My uncle Kenneth Evans was a warrant officer in the RAF and worked on Catalinas... My uncle Claude was on...
I was evacuated to Ross on Wye in 1939 and lived with relations there for 2 years, going to school firstly...
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