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The Cigarette Packet

As his family lived in Warwick and his family didn't know whether he was dead or alive, he wrote a...

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Wartime Memories of Mrs Howick

In 1941 she was bombed three times; sadly Mrs Howick lost her father, mother and sister....

Village war-time memories

'The day the war ended everyone in the village offered the milkman a drink, as he went from house to...

MY GRANDAD WILSON

HELLO EVERYONE,I FEEL I REALLY WANT TO TELL A SMALL PIECE OF MY GRANDAD WILSONS LIFE IN THE WAR YEARS,HE...

Doll with Wobbly Head

There were wooden blocks, a small bat with a coloured ball on a piece of elastic, a brown knitted bear, a...

Lovely Fruit Loaves

There was as much fruit to eat as you wanted, not only that, but all the apples and pears were kept next...

Sheltering from German Bombers amongst the rocks on the beach

I remember my mother said 鈥渨e're all going to go at grandma's, and she lives at Port Grat,...

My Uncle, My Hero

I spoke to my Auntie who told me that Uncle Frank had left home at just 15 years old... So maybe my...

Peel Internment Camp

We were lucky, my Grandmother owned a little MANX cottage and the couple who were renting off my...

Evacuated Down Under

I was 9 years old when I went with my brother on the TSS Nestor from Liverpool via South Africa to...

Falling Foul of Wartime Regulations

My parents grew up in Bilston Staffs.and many of their relations worked in the local steel works. As they...

Grandma Seward and Aunt Eva

I particularly remembered my Grandma Seward, who was aged 89 and my Aunt Eva who had been killed when a...

2) The Totty Sisters

Picnic in a Normandy field

The airmen taught them some English words:" pig", "bread"... I am now living in Britain......

A P.O.W. ON OUR FARM.

Firstly there were Italians and later on Germans as well as displaced people e.g. Yugoslavians. I also...

Philip Roy Gallop

This is a photograph of my Father - Philip Roy Gallop, printed on a postcard....

Introduction to Arthur Allvey's Diaries & Other Material

Extracts from letters from Gladys, Ethel, and Violet. If not otherwise indicated, the quotes are from...

Secret food storage place during the German Occupation of Guernsey

Mrs Doris Carr茅 interviewed by Margaret Le Cras. Right, we're talking now to Mrs Carr茅, and...

Liberated Thatchers

As we all gained experience in the Land Army, we were asked if any of us would like to be thatchers, which...

Re: Homecoming from Italian POW Camp

My brother, he was in the army, he joined the army. And my father was an army man, my uncle was an...

Gravy Stockings

His two sisters, who attended dances regularly, had very little money, especially when the ration books...

Yanks in Brackley

We lived opposite a railway station and the Yanks came and took up residence in the station yard... Some of...

Farm Tales

In 1942 the Village Hall in Bassingham was used as a billet for the land army girls. One of our other POW...

The Cook In The Cookhouse

I was taken as a Prisoner of War in Java and I finished up in Japan. I was a FEPOW for 3...

The bombs falling in London

My husband, Edward, was in reserved occupation in London....