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Stories contributed by cornwallcsv

2nd World War in North London
World War Two in Enfield
A Quiet Night
The Saga of the Gloucester City
Skylarks in Cornwall
Royal Army Medical Corps, My Exeriences
Royal Army Medical Corps, My Experiences 2
Parachute Landing in Tehidy Wood
Night Air Raid
Incident in Cornwall
Incident in Cornwall
Americans in High Street St Austell
Machine Gunned - Cycling
Falmouth Docks Bombing
Chiverton Arms, Blackwater
The Day War Broke Out
Boarding school in the War
Hotel life in the War
Air Raids on Falmouth
Horticulture at the Nansidwell Hotel, Falmouth
Carthion Hotel bombed in Falmouth
Listening to the radio in Cornwall
Arrival in Falmouth of French nationals
Boreholes and salted runner beans
telephones, car lights and timber
Hotel Guests in Falmouth
Military Driver
Military Driver 2
Military Driver 3
Night's on the North Road Station
John's War
Bombing of Falmouth Methodist Church
Memories of the Evacuees
Gas Lamps Lit
War Damage and Repairs
When We Were 'Invaded'
Manning the Ack-Ack in Plymouth
My dressicon for Story with photo
Knickersicon for Story with photo
A St. Just Evacuee
Memories of When the Yanks Came to Truro, Part 1
Special Constable No.16
Memories of when the Yanks came to Truro Part 2
Meeting the American's as a child
Wartime cure for a chesty cough & whooping cough
My family's story at Looe & Par
German pilot crashes near Primative Chapel
VE Day Remembered
Americans come to concert at Mission Hall
German pilot crashes near Primative Chapel
Cornwall's Gas Cleansing Unit
Jack's VE Day Memories
Pylmstock and Oreston Bombed
Youth Verus Wisdom
Wartime Blues
Torpoint and Gorsen Street
Pasties in Wartime
Germans Provide Seats
Bridge Of Fear
Some Memories of a 7 Year Old Boy
Some Memories of a 7 Year Old Boy -Part 2
Some Experiences of World War 2
Memories
My Memories as a Young Boy
Portreath Coasters
War Snippets
My War Experience
Evacuation from St Nazaire and Sinking of Lancastria
Family
The Diary of a Nobody 1923 - Excerpts from this 'family book'
Memories of V E Day
Childhood in Penryn
Molly's years part 1 Gun Powder Mills Waltham Abbey Essex
Recollections 1939-45
London Bombing - Life and death
Rediscovery My Father and the Family Unit
A Special Day Out
American Airman Rescue
Illogan Highway memories
D-Day - 60th Anniversary, Part 1 (The Yanks in Truro)icon for Recommended story
War Time Memories
A Teenager's War
War Time Memories
Memories of a family from Highertown -Truro (1)
Memories of Phyllis Rowe of Highertown, Truro (2)
D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (The GI’s in Truro - Spam, spam and more spam!)
D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (The GI’s in Truro - ‘Another silly bugger fallen in’)
D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (The GIs in Truro - We will remember them)
Weekend Pass
Going to School
A "naughty girl" in Harrow
A War Casualty
Portsmouth Guildhall
Dad's Homecoming
Memories From Trevanson
Wartime in Constantine
Life as a Teacher During WW2 Part 1
Life as a Teacher during WW2 Part 2
Life as a Teacher during WW2 Part 3
Life as a Teacher during WW2 Part 4
Daily Life in Wartime Plymouth
Childhood During the War
Jack's Journey - Vancouvericon for Story with photo
This and Thaticon for Story with photo
Public Air Raid Shelter
Was he a spy?
St Day Childhood
Plymouth
ARP WARDEN
Morrisson Shelter
Wimbledon SW 20 Memories
Memories of a War Time Baby
It was a bomb
A Child in Norwich Norfolk
Tuckingmill Yanks
A Hero
St Eval Landmine
St Eval Airfield and St Merryn Airfield
Memories of Childhood
A child of a Jeweller in WW2
Two Children
Escape the Doddle Bug
Like a Brother
Loose Barrage Balloon over Marazanvose
Wartime in Brackley
Wartime in Brackley
A Gordon's Story
Anecdotes of WW2 Part 1
Anecdotes of WW" Part 2
Anecdotes of WW" Part 3
Anecdotes of WW2 Part 4
Apples and Custard
Anecdotes of WW2 Part 5
Working on Trewince Farm
Elderberries for Raisins
Through a Toddlers eyes
Sweets
An Essex Boys Experience - Whe I Was Bombed
An Essex Boys Experience - Education in a Shelter
Grandpa's Air Raid Shelter
My War
Davidstowe airfleid at war
Evacuees in the Bathroom
Evacuees who Ran Away!
Hiding in the Hedges - An Evacuees Story
Farming Life at St Columb
Evacuee Story
Pentewan
Our Honeymoon
From Desert Sands to a Life on the Ocean
My First Memories of WW2
Memories After the Battle of Crete
My Memories from Indian Queens
From London to Yorkshire
Camborne girl
Air raid shelter discovers good singers!
Navy Larks
My childhood memories of the war in North Devon
Crash Landing in Cornwall
London to Devon
A country schoolboy during WW2
Cornwall 1940's
Childhood memories of Ventonleague
Fyffes banana story
12 year old farmer
Shot at in Lostwithiel
Childhood in Penzance
William Leslie Bolitho's Ration bookicon for Story with photo
Mickey Mouse Gas Maskicon for Story with photo
ARP Wardens Gas Maskicon for Story with photo
coruption in an Anderson shelter
The War,Family Life and Dad's bottom!
Jack's Journeyicon for Story with photo
Plotting through the Battle of Britain and then becoming a 'Keep Fitter'
Falmouth at War
Bombing in Truro
Saved by his glasses case
Cornish Memories
Friend or Foe?
Thanks!
The pub's got some drink!!
My Wartime Memories
Prisoner of War
Daily Life During WW2
Plymouth memories
Dashing Daisyicon for Story with photo
The grandfather I never knewicon for Story with photo
Childhood Days in Launceston
Born in a Nissen Hut
My life as a WAAF at St Eval, Cornwall
Life in the Western Desert
Coming home from the war
The War Years Remembered 50 years on Part 1
The War Years Remembered 50 years on Part 2
The War Years Remembered 50 Years on. Part 3
The War Years Remembered 50 Years on. Part 4
My memories of WW2 in Penzance
Cornish potatoes
Tractors in Cornwall
Aircraft bogged down in Cornwall
Farmers in the Cornish Home Guard
St Austell Bomb and the evacuees
Never make spot judgements
Pickled eggs douse incendiary bomb
Landmine on church spire
Bringing home a grenade
Dancing with my sweetheart in 1945icon for Story with photo
D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (Traffic Jams and ‘Smack-ups‘)
D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (Is that a torch in your pocket?)
D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (Woodbines and Cigars)
When Polruan School Was Bombed
They did not frighten me
Home Guard Memories
Working in the Jam Factory
Arrested As A Spy !!
The Schooner Ada
Rita's Wartime Tale as a Land Army Girl part 1
Rita's Wartime Tale as a Land Army Girl Part 2
Redruth to a Brewery on the Elbe via Scotland and Normandy
"War Time" with a happy endingicon for Story with photo
Wally Christie and other memories
Wartime Memories as a WAAF, Cook and Butcher
A young soldier's wartime story '39-'46
Sweet 16 in Penzance, then quickly grew up as a WAAF
A Unique RAF Ferrying Operation
The Witches Cauldron - Arnhem
China to Australia 1939-47icon for Recommended storyicon for Story with photo
Everything changed - childhood memories of the outbreak of war
Learning about the stars from a billeted soldier
'Making do' on limited rations at school
Was He the Enemy?
Donald Delves' War, Part 3: Italy, Salerno - The Bay of Hellicon for Recommended storyicon for Story with photo
The Day Our Village Was Bombed
Some Memories of the war years 1939 - 1945
A Cycling Trip I'll Never Forget
Machine Gun Incident On The Bus
My Dad's Wartime Diary 1 of 7
My Dad's Wartime Diary 2 of 7
My Dad's Wartime Diaries 3 of 7
My Dad's Wartime Diaries 4 of 7
My Dad's Wartime Diaries 5 of 7
My Dad's Wartime Diaries 6 of 7
My Dad's Wartime Diaries 7 of 7
Donald Delves' War, Part 5 : Italy - Meeting a Friend from Home
Donald Delves' War, Part 8 : Italy, Girls from a Concentration Campicon for Story with photo
Wartime Visitors to Hayle, West Cornwall
Donald Delves' War, Part 6 : Italy, The litttle girlicon for Story with photo
Donald Delves' War, Part 7 : Italy, Mule Train up a Mountain
Donald Delves' War, Part 10 : Postscript, Home & HMS Warspite "The Grand Old Lady"icon for Story with photo
D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (The black GIs)
D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 2 (The GI’s gone to war - The aftermath in Cornwall)
War Memories of Mrs Theresa Doreen Jameson
Home on the Farm
Donald Delves' War, Part 9 : Italy, Driving the Padre to the Vaticanicon for Story with photo
Dunkirk returnees
Booby Trap
A Christmas card from 1945icon for Story with photo
Morwenstow Memories
Evacuation - 1944
Truro Home Guardicon for Story with photo
Land Girl
Braving the Atlantic
Blue Feet?icon for Story with photo
Ken Sweet's Memories of War as a Schoolboy: Part 1 - Early War Years
Combat Film Analysis
Rumours of War
Recollections of an Evacuee
Falmouth Port Security
War and Peace 1940 - 46 in Truro Grammar School
The day Grandma saved my daughter
Kennaway Hall, Stoke Newington, Youth Club
My Childhood memories
Truro Grammar School at Waricon for Story with photo
A Girl Join Up
Memories of the Phoney War-OCTOBER 1939 — JUNE 1940
TRISHA'S WAR ……..VERY BRIEFLYicon for Story with photo
School to the WRNS
3rd September 1939
Truro City Hospital Bombing
The night of the bucket of water
My Favourite Night
Italian Brothers
From Cricket to the Desert Rats
Ambulance driver in Londonicon for Story with photo
Rita's Tale
Rita's Tale 2
My Father's War
Truro Grammar School - The Red Cross Link
D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 4 (Reports and Articles)
D-Day - 60th Anniversary: Part 4 (I wonder what happened to them?)
60 Years in the Waitingicon for Story with photo
The Bombing of Swanpool Fuel Storage Depoticon for Story with photo
Fly Away Jack
Memories of Truro County School
Helping Dad do repairs
My War Work
Ken Sweet's Memories of War as a Schoolboy: Part 2 - American Friends to D-Day & Beyond
Wartime Memories of Falmouth
Wartime Memories of Nanstallon Halt
Wartime Memories of Bodmin
A Memory Never Forgotten
The Coupon Dress
My Grandad's War Memories by Bethany aged 10 yearsicon for Story with photo
The Last Air Raid on Plymouth
Forgotten
W.L.A
Baptism by Fire
War in the Western Deserticon for Recommended story
Life in the Womens Auxiliary Air Force
Happy Days at H.T.P. Motors Garage
Fire Watch
Doodlebug over Whetstone
3 Lancasters going over Redruth
A Good Shot
A Good Shot - Part 2.
My Life through World War II
The Day the Earth Shookicon for Story with photo
My Plymouth Blitz and Wartime Memories
Life in the RAF
The Wrens at Waricon for Story with photo
Life on the Farm
14-11-40 The Aftermath
War Story
A childhood in Pentewan....and the bombs seemed to follow me
St Meryn Evacuee
War Recollections From Malta
Wartime Childhood Memories.
Told to me and recollections
A Boatscrew Wren's Wartime Experiences
Schoolboy Souvenir Collecting.
Mostyn Hallicon for Story with photo
The 26ers
Night Strikes from Malta
First Air Raid
Thank you!
Learner Driver!
Dad's Story R D Tonkinicon for Story with photo
The Way it Was
Home Made Sweets
FARMER DART'S GOAT
OUR CHICKEN RUN!
A Close Shaveicon for Story with photo
When we were Machine Gunned!
Sid and his Gun
Anklam Bombings
OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR I HAD! Part 1
OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR I HAD! Part 2
OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR I HAD! Part 3
Pearl Harbour
WINTER OF MY DISTRESS
Part 1: Escape from Dunkirk
Part 2: Towards the Middle East
Part 3: The Army in Cairoicon for Story with photo
Part 4: Arrival on Sicily then into Italy
Part 5: Further into Italy
Part 6: Entering Germanyicon for Story with photo
Memories of a babe in arms
WHAT HAPPENED TO TOTAL RECALL 1940 -1945
The War Responsible for my being in Cornwall
The Journey from Sunday School I will never forget
Sinking of H.M.S. St. George.
Death of Harry Sidney Wheeler
The Day War Broke OUt
Two who were so lucky
Memories of a 94 year old
A Delayed Delivery of a Message
Battle for Guards Group Headquarters
Family Memories
Evacuation of Fallinbostel POW camp - April 1945 Pt I
Evacuation of Fallinbostel POW camp - April 1945 Pt II
Memories of WW2 by Majorie Pascoe Pt I
Memories of WW2 by Majories Pascoe Pt II
Childhood Memories of Family and Doodlebugs
V.E. DAY - Raising the Flag at Lanreath Church
John Boaden's Recollections as an RAF Navigator with 106 Sqn etc.
I'vor been lucky!!!
Cornish boyhood impressions of 1939-45
The West Cornwall Carpenter
A Tribute to Our Brothers
Devonport Dockyard Lady Worker
Welder at Devonport Dockyard
George Male’s Story Part 1 of 3
George Male’s Story Part 2 of 3
George Male’s story part 3 of 3
The Guard's Chapel V-1 Flying Bomb
Tales of the Plymouth Blitz.
A Fishy One
My Wartime Experiences
My Wartime Experiences 2
Auntie Alice's War Diaries
Query - Dad's Army
Remembering Service with The 1st Cornwall Company A.T.S. - now lost in time?
Smoked Bacon Bones
Mother's Shoes
A Time when the British cared for each other.
My Story
Two Shilling Tip
The Houseless Window
A View from a child
An Amazing Escape
From Bournemouth to Boy Seaman
The Experiences of a Wartime Evacuee
Dockyard Memories
Staffordshire Evacuee
Cheese Eater
Memories of Kent
Porthleven Boyhood
D.C.L.I.
Thankgoodness For Aunties
Our Anderson Shelter
Cuppa Tea for the German Flyer
The Story of Three Children, 2 sisters and a brother
The Whistling Parrot
Sweet Tooth and Shrapnel
Devonport Dockyard Canteen Worker
60 Years Ago
Childhood Memories of a Royal Marine's Daughter
Red Cross at work in Hospital
Crash over Treleigh, Cornwall.
Bombed out to Cornwall
Post Office
Death of Sgt, Harry Sydney Wheeler
The Lost Uniforms
The Feather Duster
White Marguerites
Reflections
Blitz on Southampton
My War
Donald Delves' War, Part 1 : The Bombing of Redruth - 20th March 1941
Donald Delves' War, Part 2 : Cousin Lost on HMS Glorious, and How I Came to Join the Army.icon for Story with photo
Childhood Wartime Memories
Bomber's Moon
Thoughts on being Strafed!
Donald Delves' War, Part 4 : Italy, Taking Cover Under a Sherman Tank.icon for Story with photo
I Drove Churchill's Decoy
Stithians Parish Memories of World War 2 part 1 of 4
Stithians Parish Memories of World War 2 part 2 of 4
Stithians Parish Memories of World War 2 part 3 of 4
Stithians Parish Memories of World War 2 part 4 0f 4
Boscombe Bournemouth and Mercias memories part 1
Boscombe Bournemouth and Mercias memories part 2
5th COLUMN BUNNY!
FLYING WITH THE GIs
SORRY SONNY, YOU CAN'T FLY - SO I JOINED THE ARMY
MY TEENAGE MEMORIES
Too old for active service
Up Spirits
Eched in Stone?
Some tyres have short lives!
Ported to Southampton
Sharing the bus!
A Girl in a Sportscar?!
Borrowing the local steam roller!
Opposite the Ops. Room
58 raids in 49 days.
Cracking the code?
Leaky bus!
War Education
The Ladder which saved my life and other storiesicon for Story with photo
When I fell out of the skyicon for Story with photo
Childhood Reminiscences of WW2 in Bath
The cat that saved my life
The Russian convoys
Maltese stories
STRAWBERRY HILL MARKET GARDEN DURING THE WAR
A lump in my throat
My 3 years in No 1 Commandos
INVASION ALARMS IN CORNWALL
ST AUSTELL WARTIME MEMORIES 1 of 2
ST AUSTELL WARTIME MEMORIES 2 OF 2
Rusty the Spaniel and the War's Affect on a Boy.
Memories of WW2 as a Child
A Schoolboy's Memory of a Day at War
Schoolboy's Memory of a Day at War
The Survivor
Married life at wartime
Memories
A Personal View of WW2
Childhood Memories in Hayle Cornwall
From Potters Bar to Liskeard
Glider Pilot Squadron
German War Risk Clause 1939
Our Dad's reassurance in the bombing of Coventry
My Life Through World War II: Part 2
Part 2 My life through world war II .
Two People's \War
Two People's \War
Life in Burton on Trent
Life on Royal Naval Camp 1944/45
Dad's reassurance in the bombing of Coventry
View of Coventry from the top of a Shelter
Street Lamps Lit at Last
The Way We Were
Bombers' Moon
Life on a farm in Mawnan, Falmouth
Looking into hell
The First Year of the War at St. Buryan - A Schoolboy's View.
The Exeter Blitz in the Eyes of a Child
The Hall Family Evacuated to Lostwithiel.
St Ives beach attack
A trip to London on VJ Day
The Cox brothers Evacuation to Australia.
Americans - great help, collected water, Omaha casualties
DAILY LIFE - Coastguard patrol, boot with foot in.
ENEMY ACTION - Uboat periscope
Peoples War: HELSTON BASED
D DAY PREPARATIONS - convoy, "so many ships"
My Duties as an Air Frame Fitter
Wartime Memories
Notes from my Diary
Diary Notes of a Telephonist
Working in an RAF Fixing Station
Life on an RAF Fixing Station
RAF Colerne Fixing Station
Directing Pilots by a Fixing Station
ORANGES COME IN ON THE TIDE
AWAY FROM HOME TO BARNSLEY
MEMORIES THROUGH A TEENAGER'S EYES
AMERICANS - no women in pubs until Americans
Work - Camouflage net, dyed, white string
ENEMY ACTION - bombing, big rock, table not much protection.
ENEMY ACTION - German bomber crash, crew killed.
AMERICANS - bicycles, marches
DAILY LIFE - washday, boiler, blue bag, starch.
OUTBREAK OF WAR - birthday, exciting, windows protected.
WAR END - VE Day celebrations, burned Hitler effigy.
SECOND WORLD WAR MEMORIES OF PAULINE HUSBAND Part 1
Parts 3 and 4 SECOND WORLD WAR MEMORIES OF PAULINE HUSBAND
Part 2 WORLD WAR MEMORIES OF PAULINE HUSBAND
If you see an incendiary bomb, don't lose your head, put it in a bucket! - Part 1
Here comes the Mulberry Harbour - Part 2
Gunga Din, The Water Carrier - Part 3
MY PART IN HITLER'S DOWNFALL Part 1 and 2
A Kriegie's Log
German Plane in Mangold Field
Miles of string and Parachute clothes
JUST DROPPED IN TO MAKE A PHONE CALL!
MY WAR - BY ED BROWN
´óÏó´«Ã½ WARTIME SOUND RECORDIST
My Baby Gas Maskicon for Story with photo
Jim Libby’s Schoolboy Recollections : Part 1 - at Sandplace & Looe during World War 2.
Jim Libby’s Schoolboy Recollections : Part 2 - My Uncles in the Royal Navy.
The Banana Sacrifice
Denis's Helford Memories
Firefighting Memories
Hostile Boat?
Tragic Accident
Island Memories
The Lone Rifleman
A TEENAGER IN HELSTON
D-DAY PREPARATION - invasion fleet, Don Koos
ENEMY ACTION - bombing, German plane crash.
HOME FORCES - Fortress Lands End, RAF took it away
HOME FORCES - Inniskillings, "travel about 2 miles like going abroad
ENEMY ACTION - Empire Kingsley torpedoed, convoys attacked.
ENENY ACTION - Whitley bomber, crashed Hayle.
My Memories of World War 2
Memories of World War 2
Coastal Forces
ENEMY ACTION - Empire Kingsley attack, Germans attack lifeboats.
Coastal Forces
HOME FORCES - Hurricanes at St. Mary's, Scilonian crash
French Resistance
My Memories of World War 2
Coastal Forces
My First Days of Life
My father - the ham fisted 'secret agent'!
A Teacher's Tale
A keen cadet
Trannack Tales
Kindnesses to troops - both friendly & hostile
H.m.S. Glorious - and Afterwardsicon for Story with photo
WARTIME IN CORNWALL
WAR COMES TO THE TAMAR VALLEY
CHILDHOOD IN GERMANY
MEMORIES OF A D-DAY DODGER
A wounded Dad's reunion with his daughters
Memories of 341 Squadron
BOYHOOD IN CALLINGTON
WAR YEARS IN MOUSEHOLE
Getting Married in December 1941
THE LUFTWAFFE ATTACK TREVOSE HEAD
Edwin Carneicon for Story with photo
The Canterbury Boys in Cornwallicon for Story with photo
OVER HERE
INTERNED BY THE JAPANESE IN SHANGHAI
I AM A DERBYSHIRE LAD
STORY 1 MULBERRY SECRET WORK. STORY 2 LOVE AND THE DOODLEBUGS
HOME WAS A TRANSIT HOUSE
A little bit of Willesden
Dora Williams' Recollections of War: Restrictions; Family, Marriage and Parting.
A Safe Landing, in a Haystack!
Safe in the Country?
D-D PREPARATIONS - convoys,all types ship
WORK - farming, water collection.
From Mullion to India
WORK - farming, directives, milk stands.
Female RAf sparky!
Post Office Work
Ministry of Food
DAILY LIFE - rationing
DAILY LIFE - iron railings taken, lost football.
DAILY LIFE - headmaster called up - evacuee teacher.
Bert Vickery's story part 1
Bert Vickery's Story - Part 2
Bert Vickery's Story - Part3
Bert Vickery's Story - Part 4
Bert Vickery's story part 5
Bert Vickery's Story - Part 6
Evacuated to Hereford
Tim Parr's memories of World War 2 part 1
Tim Parr's memories of World War 2 Part 2
wartime memories 1939-45
The War Remembered
War in Falmouth
JOE AVERAGE - ANTI-HERO
JOE TAKES TO THE AIR AND LANDS IN INDIA
JOE IN OZ
LINES ON THE LAND
WARTIME IN CALLINGTON CORNWALL
PAT FERGUSON'S WW2 MEMORIES Part 1 LIFE IN AN ORPHANAGE DURING W.W.2
PAT FERGUSON'S WW2 MEMORIES. Part 2 OTHER MEMORIES OF MY MOTHER AND LIFE IN LONDONicon for Story with photo
Silent Night bridged the divide
In the war zone when I shouldn't have been
A Quarryman's Tale
The Dam Busters - Precautions Against German Reprisal Attack.icon for Recommended story
Kathleen's WW2 childhood memories. Part 1 Six years old and scared!
WW2 Memories of Marjorie Watson Part 1 Primitive Privyicon for Story with photo
WW2 Memories of Marjorie Watson Part 2 Stalking the Hare and Shooting the Swan
WW2 Memories of Marjorie Watson Part 3 Poor Gertrude
Extracts from Douglas Mahoney's WW2 Memories -Part 1
Extracts from Douglas Mahoney's WW2 Memories -Part 2: Destination Malta
Extracts from Douglas Mahoney's WW2 Memories -Part 3: The convoys
Extracts from Douglas Mahoney's WW2 Memories -Part 4: Under attack.
Extracts from Douglas Mahoney's WW2 Memories -Part 5: Further attacks
Extracts from Douglas Mahoney's WW2 Memories -Part 6: Beer and Beach parties
Extracts from Douglas Mahoney's WW2 Memories -Part 7: Homeward Bound
Normans war part 1
WORLD WAR II Service details from Edward Astley-Jones. Part 1 War is declared
WORLD WAR II Service details from Edward Astley Jones:icon for Story with photo
Cycling to work
Recollections from August 1939 - July 1946
My War Service 1939 - 1945/6
Molly Radley's War Years Part 2 1939-1945/7
WORLD WAR II:part 3 service details of Edward Astley-Jonesicon for Story with photo
WW2 MEMORIES OF MICHAEL FERGUSON Part 1 - FROM PILLAR TO POST
THE GIRL FROM THE MOTOR POOLicon for Story with photo
SWIMMING EVACUEES
GERMAN PLANE OVER ST IVES
GERMAN PLANE OVER ST IVES WHILST BLACKBERRY PICKING
EVACUATED FROM LONDON TO HERTFORDSHIRE
CHILDISH IMAGINATION
SPITFIRE COLLISION OVER ST ERTH
JUNKERS 88 CRASH IN NORTH DEVON
WW2 MEMORIES OF MICHAEL FERGUSON Part 2 - Dealing in the Black Market
WW2 MEMORIES OF MICHAEL FERGUSON Parts 3 and 4
AMY BUCKINGHAM IN THE LAND ARMY
ARTHER JOINS UP AND BECOMES A MOONRAKER part 1
ARTHUR JOINS UP AND BECOMES A MOONRAKER Part 2icon for Story with photo
PEOPLE'S WAR - FROM RAYMOND MOXLEY
PEOPLE'S WAR - FROM RAYMOND MOXLEY
PEOPLE'S WAR - FROM RAYMOND MOXLEY
WW2 MEMORIES OF DONALD KING part 1
WW2 MEMORIES OF DONALD KING part 2
WW2 MEMORIES OF DONALD KING part 3
WW2 MEMORIES OF DONALD KING part 4
Norman's war part one
Norman's war part two
Norman's war part three
Norman's war part four
Callington Home Guardicon for Story with photo
Callington Home Guard on their vehiclesicon for Story with photo
St Dennis and Goss Moor - Home Guard
St Dennis and Goss Moor - Rationing
St Dennis and Goss Moor - German Air Raids.
St Dennis and Goss Moor - Blackouts
St Dennis and Goss Moor - Indian Queens Primary School
St Dennis and Goss Moor - Indian Queens Primary School
Life between Plymouth, Nottingham, Looe and the bombs!
My Wartime Wanderings
St Dennis and Goss Moor - Women's Land Army
St Dennis and Goss Moor - Salvage.
St Dennis and Goss Moor - Military Sites
St Dennis and Goss Moor - Evacuees
St Dennis and Goss Moor - Lend-Lease Tractors
St Dennis and Goss Moor - Lend-Lease Tractors
St Dennis and Goss Moor - Ministry of Agriculture.
St. Dennis and Goss Moor - Airfield Construction
A Young Boy (8 - 14 years) and World War Two
Instrument of Surrender of the Japaneseicon for Story with photo
A happy wartime childhood
Cattle chaos!
Constantine Memories
Boarding Officer
Helston Memories
Nursing Memories
More Nursing Memories
A Mining Adit Bomb Shelter
All Sorts of Aircraft
A School Boy in WW2
ANECDOTE YEARS 1943-45
SEEING IS BELIEVING
Barbecues in wartime
FROM A QUIET TOWN TO EGYPT
So this is Algiers
St Dennis and Goss Moor - Military Aircraft Crashes
St Dennis and Goss Moor - Local Defences
St Dennis and Goss Moor - The Construction of RAF St Mawgan
St Dennis and Goss Moor - The Build up to D-Day.
STEWARDESS ON THE TRAINS
MR DELLER'S WARTIME STORY
A Short History of the 71st Field Company R.E. in the North Western European Campaign 1944 - 1945
Bridges built by 71st Field Company Royal Engineers.
My Experiences in Canada, Indian and Pacific Oceans during WW2
My War by Dr Brian Kirkpatrick
My War in the North Atlantic to South Pacific.
War Memories of Jan van der Salm
War Memories of Jan van der Salm
Messages to 71st Field Company
A childs war in Falmouth
Schoolboy Blitz Memories
A Happy War
My War Travels
Days off from school
"When Bombs Fell" - The air-raids on Cornwall during WW2 : Part 1 - Introduction, Preface & Index.
"When Bombs Fell" - The air-raids on Cornwall during WW2 : Part 2 - 1940 (complete year).
"When Bombs Fell" - The air-raids on Cornwall during WW2 : Part 3 - 1941 January to April.
"When Bombs Fell" - The air-raids on Cornwall during WW2 : Part 4 - 1941 May to August.
"When Bombs Fell" - The air-raids on Cornwall during WW2 : Part 5 - 1941 September to December.
"When Bombs Fell" - The air-raids on Cornwall during WW2 : Part 6 - 1942 (complete year).
"When Bombs Fell" - The air-raids on Cornwall during WW2 : Part 7 - 1943 & 1944 (complete years) & Postscript.
Narrow Escape
DONALD DELVES' WAR - NORTH AFRICA TO ITALY
Yanks in Cornwall
Commendation to Pauline Middletonicon for Story with photo
Perran at War. (PART 1)
Schleswig Holstein Visit to Falmouth 1938
Schleswig Holstein Fired Shots on Danzig - 1939
Schleswig Holstein Football Match
Sandbag Filling For Falmouth Hospital.
Forgotten Gas Masks.
Degaussing Ships in Falmouth Docks.
HMS Forte 1, 2, 3, 4.
British Expeditionary Force.
Birthday Bombing
Falmouth Docks Main Target of German Bombing.
Indiscriminate Bombing Meant Adventure For Youngsters
Anderson Shelters and Evacuees in Falmouth
Perran at War. (PART 2)
Civilians Worked Harder than Servicemen.
Medical student in London
NOT EVACUATED
OUR EVACUEES FROM BATTERSEA, LONDON
Wartime House Auction
Perran at War. (PART 3).
Falmouth Hotels Destroyed in Bombing Raids
Dutch Navy at Ennis House, Mylor.
Street Parties and Rationing.
Supply Trips To Normandy
MY NEAREST OCCASION TO A DANGEROUS DEATH!
Opportunities Of War
Land Mine Dropped By Parachute
Demob And Decision
Arramanches to Arras-1944
Crepe de Chine in Arras
Joining the Colours
Billet With a Belgian Tax Collector
Perran at War. (PART 4).
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