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Aberdeen air raids

The sirens went off because German planes were coming over and we scuttled home to Sandilands Drive in...

A Special Family

One of my special memories of 1944 is of Mr & Mrs Wright and their family who lived in the mining...

Lost Dad

Jean's family, her father, mother and brother Brian, moved from Edlington to Sprotborough when she was...

A china doll in wartime

One thing I had also wanted was a doll with eyes that shut — all you got were cloth dolls with china...

More Details Of HMS Sovereign/Royal Navy

I am Harvey.I have used this name as a memory of my grandfather Fred Owen Davies,& my Uncle Fred...

Cornish Memories

My brother was also in the Army... He was only overseas for 3 months when he was taken prisoner by the...

It was always 'Red' Lipstick...

I was evacuated from Liverpool, with my Mother and Brother in 1939 when the war broke out to live with my...

A travelers tale

When war was declared; my baby girl was only 10 days old — I traveled to Britain with her and my...

My time in the Army.

I had a girlfriend too, she lived at Greenside, we met every weekend, we went to Greenside dance every...

We entertained the troops

We went out every night with the concert group entertaining the troops, in particular the Spanish pioneer...

Surrounded by Women

Uncle Bob was taking me from Liverpool to Dublin during the Blitz in 1941/42 when I was about 3. When I was...

Working at the Cabinet War Rooms

During the war she worked as a telephone operator in the War Cabinet Office in London and also as an...

Working at a Restaurant in Royston

I was 15 years old when war broke out working as a cook in a local restaurant in Royston... We were close...

Juan Christian, memories of my father - Part 1

His father was Joe Christian who was well known on the island as a tenor singer. When my father moved in he...

A Good Shot

In 1945 we had Italian Prisoners working at Carsella Farm - they came along each day to do ditching round...

Anne Akehurst's Wartime Story -Looking After the Evacuees

Anne and another woman had to look after the distraught evacuees aged four to seven....

Childhood Impression

My Time in the WRENS

I can remember one day I was at Norfolk House typing up the notes for the invasion of Sicily near an open...

My family and war

My story begins in 1954 when I was born the youngest son of George Miller and Adje Wolff... A strange twist...

War Worker

In 1939 Dorothy Robinson, ex war worker was 19 years of age when the war started.She was based in sqiures...

Nurse During The War

I was a nurse at North Wales, London and Surrey... Our meals were provided since I was a nurse....

MY YEARS IN ALVASTON, DERBY

I would have been seven years of age when World War Two was declared; we lived in Warren Street, Alvaston,...

"The News" , the fall of Belgium

I remember an evening vividly in 1940 when Dad, John Ross Dunn, came home from work, put his newspaper on...

my memories

We sold bottled beer and beer from pumps, the horse drawn dray from the brewery used to call every week to...

V.J.

But as long as there are memories and tongues to tell the tale, Heroism of their stories, will never ever...

The Day Dad Came Home

Whilst my father was away in India he sent me letters and dot to dot puzzles and drawings. My father had a...