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Who's Got the Baby?

This is the story of my mother and grandmother as remembered by me... My grandmother lived in Peckham and...

Fit For Overseas

My eldest brother, Stanley, worked in the office of a tank factory. My eldest sister, Mary, worked as a...

Guarding the Coast

Woolworths was bombed in Bristol and built again in a hurry - but there was always a smell of death when...

Yarmouth story

One lunchtime some friends and I went onto the seafront in Yarmouth. I had a baby at this time; my husband...

My Father's Letter

I hope you are having a nice holiday, I expect you and Roger had some fun making sandcastles at Blackpool....

My return to Jersey By Billie Brooks nee Rous

I had a message from the war office, a plane was waiting at Exeter to fly me to Jersey to help to...

The Interpreter

My mother was English and my father was Italian... I had attended a French school in Leicester Square and...

Why the ´óÏó´«Ã½ had credibility

There is the documented case of a German u-boat commander who was convicted of scuttling his sub when he...

Inspired to Loving Duty Part 3

Very proud to be a British Red Cross Member Junior Detachment, Surrey 510. I am involved with Royal British...

Memories of a Bus 'Clippie' in Birmingham

I have since moved away from Birmingham and am now living in Redditch....

House Blown to Bits

Her elder sister was actually observing enemy aircraft, her elder brother who must have been about...

The Day War Ended

All the locals from the village of Low Habberley where we lived and round about collected timber and that...

Fire-Watching and other jobs

My sister was in the Land Army, it was her ambition to go, and sure enough, off she went. Watching the...

Daddy Come Home

When he came home in 1946 and I was at school I opened the door and saw my daddy for the first...

Life on a Gun Site

From outbreak of war till July 1942 I was in reserved occupation making uniforms then recieved call-up...

An Australian Perspective

I remember my friend Betty getting married to Owen... She wanted to get married before Owen left for the...

Freda Willis' War

I went to work at Vickers Aircraft factory at Squires Gate Blackpool, there I had to work 8am to 8pm,on two...

A Life Time Friendship

Her name was Dimphnia Berridge, but she said call me "Dolly", my name I said is Anne Vick so she...

Audrey Goddard - My Memories

He was doing an agricultural degree so he could have been exempt from the army but he signed up anyway to...

A family change their minds about evacuating

So then the Germans arrived, and then we just seemed to carry on as usual, I was too young to be bothered...

Bernard Hall's Story

I left school at 16 and became an apprentice at a pharmacy. I was excused being called up because I was in...

Charlie, Have you got a cauliflower?

Charlie, Have you got a cauliflower. Everybody from the road used to say “Charlie, have you got a...

TOM WILLIAMS GOES TO WAR

I want to contribute my recollections of a fine and brave man, - my bother-in-law, Tom Williams. Tom was a...

When the war broke out.

When I arrived there was a taxi waiting for me and they took me to Bishop's Cleeve — that's a...

Mum's letter

The following words were penned to our Mother from a couple maybe in France or Belgium on the 30/10/1944...

An Italian who Stayed

Eventually he ended in a work party that worked in a farm above Laxey in an area called Ballaragh, owned by...