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Foster Father Gave Me Away

It was 1939 and I lived with a Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett, lovely couple, with a teenage daughter... I...

Mary McClean's war memories

My mum was a cleaner at the ROF. They gave her stockings and salted peanuts, and fruit cake in a tin....

My 21st birthday, August 1941

I presented them with a cutlery set, which they cherished. When the air-raids started, my mother used to...

Letter from H.M King George VIicon for Story with photo

Letter from H.M King George VI...

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Never make spot judgements

Two people ahead of me in the queue was a Naval officer about 40 years old... Later I made inquiries and...

Extra portions to catch my Irishman

Robert was then sent to France and then up through Germany. He later went to Israel and saw the bombing of...

ww2

ww2. 3 september 1939 one day we will all never forget as i go to peace now i will tell you of...

My Family

My dad was a miner and my mum cleaned and worked at Higham Grange - a miners convalescence home... My...

Life in the Sawmill

I worked at Stableford Wood sawmills cutting timber and making charcoal during the war, and all my working...

The Doctor Who Scarred Me.

Andrew Davis, the conductor was born at the same time a few miles away. I was born with a naevus on my...

Sister's Arrival Whilst Evacuated in Cornwall

My mother then had to go on a journey around Cornwall in the blackout until a bed was found!...

A Wartime Baby.

Our house was full of people the night I was born as the neighbours had been bombed out so they were all...

In Memory of My Uncle

He came off the boat because of suspected appendicitis, but they found out it wasn't , he then...

Francis' story

Fran is the Great Great Auntie of Ryan Walters who has typed this story up from notes given to him by Fran....

Why I Didn't Get An Irish Passport.

They didn't want me to be born with an Irish passport so we went back to Liverpool so I could be born...

Stationed in Cumberlan.

I was badly burnt face and hands all bandaged up like an Egyptian Mummy and the Matron said she wanted...

Fights and frights in Salisbury

There was the pheasant Inn, and a couple of bombs along the railway by Skew Bridge — I remember that...

Work for young adults

During the war he lived in Eaton in Yorkshire, when the war started he was 17, and was still at school......

Weekend Pass

My dad Frank Rowe was stationed at St Anthony Head as a bombardier with the Royal Artillary during the...

Arriving To England From Burma

Finally we landed in Southampton where my Father's brother was waiting to drive us to Queensborough to...

Dad's Homecoming

As soon as the war was over mum and I lived in expectation of Dad appearing every day... Mum was walking...

"No Mother, not the dog!"

My name's Robert Burns and I was born in 1934 in Walsall in the West Midlands. We buried the bakers van...

A toddlers Memories of Occupation - Musical propaganda

On one such occasion, near the White Rock Weighbridge, during the interlude, the audience was addressed and...

Stalag XV11Bicon for Story with photo

My father Fred was a trained butcher from Salcombe serving as Private 155880, in the Green Howards. He soon...

John Edgars Story

I thought I was an only child for five years, then my elder sister and brother came home from Yorkshire...

The aliens have landed!

In the early 1940s, the "aliens" as we called them - who were actually the prisoners of war and...

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