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Memories of VE Day

Tam and I decided we would try and get back to her place for tea — however we got stuck outside the...

Suffering Moses - The Early Years

Poland had fallen in rapid fashion and in the mist and snow of that winter, the Germans were massing in the...

Dorothy Collis Part 6

Our men of the Fourteenth army, often called the Forgotten army, were still in the midst of war, suffering...

V.E. Day, Sirens and Maggie's Teeth

This women and her family heard the sirens and ran in for the neighbour next door and they said to her,...

A Teenager's War

I started my apprenticeship in the summer of 1942 in a shipyard in the London docks. In Hyde Park there was...

From Clock Maker to the R.A.F. Mutiny.

My main R.A.F. existence was with 160 Squadron at Sigiriya and we were laying mines all around Java,...

A Wartime Exprience During The Blitz

Eric Archer was devastated as he was very much in love with Muriel, but Muriel's feelings went very...

Childhood Memories of WW2 in Surrey

Rationed balancer meal was obtained from the Ministry of Food office in Millmead, Guildford. The Ministry...

Why must Joy be Tainted with Pain and Sorrow?

There had been a very frightening moment too, when Mum had opened the front door to see a telegraph boy...

Memories of My Childhood

Of our class sitting along the benches in the gloom trying to do lesions and dashing across to the canteen...

Memories of VE Day in Frances Street, Woolwich

We lived in Frances Street, Woolwich, close to the Britannia public house, situated at the junction with...

Wartime Memories of a Young Boy

My uncle, aunt and two cousins set out in his car and my mother, father, brother and I in ours and we...

The End of the War by Joan Stokoe

All the celebrations that were being planned to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II...

Leominster air-raid siren

The siren in Leominster was at the rear of Woolworths, and my bedroom window was within yards of it. I went...

Bernard's Wartime Childhood in Ipswich

The shelter had its own distinctive atmosphere; a mixture of candlewax and the dank smell of earth.I can...

The Day I Discovered Peace

Then there was the walk to the shops with Mum, brother and myself. My brother and I were told that...

Memories of Belfast during the War Years

During the war years I lived in Thirlmere Gardens between the Antrim and Cavehill roads in Belfast. Apart...

VE -day Letter from Lt William R Murchie:

It was a day or two after V-E day, but the crowds were like moths around the lights—great masses of...

A Bathful of Squash for VJ Day and other Childhood Memories

A German submarine had sailed into the Port of London to surrender. There was a large P.O.W. camp for...

A Young Man in Wartime London [D.Gurney : Part 2]

Dennis saw much of london from the buses that continued to run throughout the bombing. Once the scaristan...

VE Day Street Party

The other nurse was a London girl and her name was Jean. It was 1944 and the incendiary and other bombs had...

VE Day Street Party

The other nurse was a London girl and her name was Jean. It was 1944 and the incendiary and other bombs had...

Olive Roots’ Dymchurch and Newchurch War Childhood

Lived in Blackmenstone a farm near Newchurch Romney Marsh Kent. One Sunday morning a German plane came down...

VE Day Street Party

The other nurse was a London girl and her name was Jean. It was 1944 and the incendiary and other bombs had...

A Letter to my Daddy on VE Day

There were long tables set up down the middle of the street, and everything you could have wished for was...

My Life at Dunstable's Meteorological Office

Four went to Bletchley Park and the other three including myself went to Dunstable. The Met Office closed...