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The War in Ruislip Manor Part2

We always had a good laugh at the way the Germans tried to make us downhearted by broadcasting news that we...

Memories of World War 2 - in Croydon

I don't think I heard Neville Chamberlain's announcement. At that time my parents lived in Croydon,...

A Yorkshire Recce Driver's End of War Memories

In fact, whilst I was based at Wuppertal after the war, I was on guard duty at the prison where Von...

A Boy's War - in North London

There must have been more danger from shrapnel than from German bombs. It eventually drops a bomb on the...

Only an Evacuee Part 2

At Pulborough I was put in the junior class with the village boys and a few other evacuees. But the hardest...

Memories - A Boy's War in Hellfire Corner

German POW's started working in the town, digging a large trench up London Road and Old Park Road to...

A Rural Child Touched by War: Part Two (1943 - 1945)

My father replied to an advertisement for an experienced horseman for a farm at Aldbrough St John, a small...

Fever Pitch

Off duty nurses slept in the passage ways beneath the main corridor, where the main pipes carrying the gas,...

Machine-Gunned on Swanage Beach

It was a lovely place to be, and in the fateful August of 1942 that all Swanage people remember we shared...

Growing up in Wartime

Their father was a fireman from Croydon and when Bristol seemed to have been spared any raids the firemen...

The German Surrender and End of the War in Europe by Edna Stafford (nee Hodgson)

Eisenhower and A.C.M Tedder both were driven away and within a few minutes the Russian Officer left. Then a...

Diary Extracts RAPC Malta 1945 up to VE Day

Thursday: To St. Paul's Bay, Mellieha, Shein Tufieha, Mosta and back in cycle... Back to Valetta for...

Egremont marks the 60th Anniversary of ‘VJ Day’

Secondly, Reverend Woolcock welcomed everyone to the church for the Thanksgiving Service ands in particular...

A Leicestershire Schoolgirl's War

I was still at the Church of England Junior School in Wigston Magna and walked approximately four miles...

Adelaide's Party by Rob Farley

In the cool of the morning, the shrapnel still too warm to covet for posterity, rummaging around in the...

Effie's War in Lincolnshire - Part 3

He arranged for volunteers from BGS to pick potatoes on his farm and some twenty of us duly cycled over to...

"Playing with the rabbits" Ch.4 (Part 2) The End

This aerodrome became part of the chain of aerodromes under Bomber Command, which would later launch the...

The War Through the Eyes of a Child

I loved being there but mother hated it and arranged for her brother to take us to her own parents in Sale,...

Making the King Laugh: Memories of VE Day

I was commanded by His Majesty King George VI to be present at an Investiture at Buckingham Palace on May...

Life in Old Bramhope in Wartime - Part 2

1 remember in particular Giinter Matem, who had a beautiful singing voice, and was much in demand for solos...

Some Memories, 1939-1945

Glenburn Street ran up from the junction of Ardgowan and Belhaven Streets at the Glen Bridge, and Clyde...

Recollections of World War 2

In those days, an army barracks known as Albany Barracks adjoined Parkhurst Prison where my father was a...

Coping In the War: A boy Scouts Memory

We went to London , and there was hardly any traffic and we got to the Mall and stopped at the bottom...

A Medic in the Blitz; Relieving Belsen Camp

And then we got off and we flew with a drunken Canadian crew, by that time been waiting for the …, to...

VE day at Mytchett Part 3

I was sitting in the Utility car outside the guard room one dark mizzy evening having a quiet chat to a...

Wartime Memories

With scant ceremony I was bundled up and taken up to their current flat in Bristol: in Filton, near the...