My husband, Lennox Leavett was in the Navy, and saw action in the Western Approaches and in the...
Her job was canteen duty and from keeping food and cups of tea or coffeegoing all day and night they kept...
My dad was only in the army for a few weeks as shown in his discharge papers. I wrote the note to...
What I used to do when I went in to Beirut, was we had an arrangement where we could get some bananas....
The people in the second world war did not want to speak much about their experiences, although I did pick...
One day when the sirens went off my dad said "Come on Missus" to my mum. Dad said "She will...
My boyfriend Harold was in the army in the 88th Field Regiment and was a prisoner in Thailand... Harold...
Mrs Fawcett was born in South Muskum in Nottinghamshire. Mrs Fawcett lived in a flat area of...
I remember one sister being dressed as Montgomery, another was Lord Teddy,I was Churchill and a younger...
Wagg Smith sticks out in my mind how he spoke of the times in the First World War he mended roads behind...
In 1944, my sister, Mary Grant drove ambulances with wounded British soldiers to various hospitals... Mam...
My family i.e. my parents Mr & Mrs Wilson, me, Eileen aged 17, Sheila 15 and Brenda 13, lived at...
I had five bridesmaids and they all had bouquets that George had bought. Two bridesmaids wore mauve, two...
My grandmother took us in, my dad was shipped out to India and we never saw him for 4 ½ years... I...
The police station was built with two houses for the police and an office in the centre and during the war...
Then I moved to Grays’ factory when the war started, making armatures for Spitfires....
Panicking, I said “My Mum's in there!.. You're Mum is next door with a lady with young...
My dad passed his medical on the day I was born, 9th September 1940 and was enlisted with the Royal...
Later on in the war the bombing stopped and food rationing came in and we were practically starving—...
As Vauxhall works was taken over to make Churchill Tanks Luton was well up on the bombing list of German...
When we reached the signal box the signal man came to us and gave us half a crown. He asked us to...
When the doodlebugs started my mother decided to take me and my baby sister to live in Nailsworth with my...