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15 October 2014
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My Mum in the Land Army

My Mum was a Land Army girl during WW2....

ST Agnes Band IN Wartime

Ronnie Matthews, known to some as Cuthbert, was born in 1925 and started learning the cornet just before...

A freezing new year

The weather invited some of them to our Christmas party and we made friends with one young man called Hugh...

Peace Pledge Union

When war broke out I was teaching at a Grammar School in a village in County Durham. As a member of the...

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Olive's wartime memories

I had three brothers who were all called up — one in the Army, one in the Air Force and one in...

Royal Army Medical memories.

One of my greatest memories was when I was sent to Singapore with the Royal Army Medical. By Amy Hall,...

A Nurse's story

During the War I was training to be a nurse at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool. On one occasion he and some...

Effects felt for many decades

I have never really discussed her grief at losing her husband but she never re-married and instead devoted...

A Child's Day Trip Out

The gentleman was a miner, there was a son, a daughter and a dog called Queenie... Years later I asked mum...

William Waterworth's Story

Another memory is when evacuees came to the village of Roby Mill... A very different dialect from that of...

A Schoolgirl in wartime.

My brother was a hero Not recognised as such... A hero of Great Britain He gave his dear life Just one of...

A Car hidden for the duration of the German Occupation of Guernsey.

A Car hidden for the duration of the German Occupation of Guernsey. Mrs Doris Carré interviewed by...

Dunkirk returnees

My Dad went up to bring some of them home to bathe their feet, have a meal or even a soft bed...

Dad's Homecoming

My father Sargent John P. Yellend, a member of the Royal Berkshire Regiment was a "chindit" serving...

Life during World War Two

When the war started Marian was just 16 years old she listened to the war announcement on the radio in her...

The Hall Family Evacuated to Lostwithiel.

My Mother - Maud Hall, two Brothers and three Sisters and I, were evacuated to Lostwithiel in Cornwall;....

Shattered Glass

When the doodlebugs started my mother decided to take me and my baby sister to live in Nailsworth with my...

From Starvation to Liberation to Romance.

We saw some German soldiers watching as we, and other people, were taking this food home and some of those...

Soldiers billeted in Colchester 1939

They were Tommy, Billy and George and between then and the beginning of June they wrote censored...

Abad man

Many years ago there was a man called adolf hitler now adlof hitler was 18 at this time and he had joined...

Youth

I've always been intrested in History and Wars especially and i decided to write this as I dont know...

The War in Germany - Chapter 6

"Did they go back to Germany after the war, to look, to meet? The War in Germany — Chapter 1 The...

The Way We Met

On June 4th 1941 I met my husband Ken through my friend Betty... My aunt made a cake, the top made of...

Wartime memories of Keighley

They were taken to the drill hall in Keighley and then they were taken to the drill hall in Halifax... He...

Meeting My Dad

I remember once when Mum and I were waiting for the picture to begin I said in a very loud voice,...

Survival in Paris

My mother fled when the Germans approached Paris in my uncle's car and went to the Lozere region. When...

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