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15 October 2014

WW2 - People's War

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大象传媒 Learning Centre Gloucester

User ID: U834040

The 大象传媒 Learning Centre in Gloucester was a People's War Associate Centre and showed many people how to contribute their own or their family's story and pictures to the People's War project.

Read the fascinating stories we have collected by clicking on the links below.

The 大象传媒 Learning Centre
Holloway House
71-73 Eastgate Street
Gloucester GL1 1PW
Tel: 01452 418180
Web: www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/learningcentre/

Stories contributed by 大象传媒 Learning Centre Gloucester

Wartime Schooling
Diary of a Squaddie: The First Three Days
Memories of My Childhood
Wartime Schooling in Wotton Under Edge
Air raids in Cheltenham
War Memories from a Punjab Boyhood
Birthday Fib gets Jamaican Schoolboy into the RAF
Schooling and Sardine Pie in Surrey
Stale Cakes, Sugar Beet, Scabies and Special Custard - Memories of an Evacuee Boy's diet
Schoolboy Memories of War in Jamaica
'A Banana A Day Will Keep Hitler Away'
Sweet Memories of the Day War Ended
When Dad was in the Jamaica Home Guard
Plane Spotting and Shortages in Jamaica
'My Best Years in England' - an Indian's War in Birmingham
A Jamaican Motorcyclist in the RAF
Wartime Life in a Chinese Laundry
Wartime Life on a Gloucestershire Farm
Firefighting at the Gloster Aircraft Company
Frank Conway Prisoner of War
How we Escaped from France in 1940
Fundraising for the Firewatchers as a Girl
'Hanging Hitler' at the VE Day Street Party
Doodlebug attack in Enfield
A Bathful of Squash for VJ Day and other Childhood Memories
What Mum and Dad told Me after the War
Forced Labour and a Ukrainian Romance in Germany
When the Germans Burned our Ukrainian Village
Snatched from Ukraine to Work on a German Pig Farm
Sent by the Germans from Ukraine to a collective farm
Ukrainian Miller Forced to Become a Miner in Germany
From Ukraine to a Munitions Factory in Hamburg
From Ukraine Village School to Forced Labour
Alone, Young and Vulnerable on a Farm in Poland
From Tannankov to the Tyrol - A Homesick Teenager's Story
Snatched from Ukraine by Two Germans and a Dog
Young Ukrainian who went West instead of back East
Reunited - Ukrainian Brothers Separated by War
Freedom in Britain for a Ukrainian Exile
Survivor of the Burma-Siam Railway
A young woman's encounters with German PoWs in Derby
The Messenger Service in Nailsworth
Dad's delicate cargo from Dunkirk
The Dog that was Our Early Air Raid Warning
A Child's Eye View of War in Churchdown
Narrow Escape in Bombing Raid on Quedgeley
When bombs, Yanks, and Queen Mary came to Tredworth
Hair-raising times for a Gloster factory maintenance electrician
The Day My Father Died
GAC and the Great A46 Landslip
Bino - Prisoner of War
Bombs Away over Cranham
The boys in the woods before Arnhem
Spotters and Plotters in Gloucestershire
Barred by the Army's strange 'moving wood'
En route to D-Day through Cranham
Incendiaries at Overtown Farm, Cranham
Boy鈥檚 view of the anti-aircraft battery above Cranham
When the Germans bombed Hurran's nursery
Evacuated from London to the country and back
Making ends meet and whale meat - but not again!
Air raid life near the Gloster Aircraft Company
A Cranham boy's Gloucestershire war memories
When Daddy went away to war - a Brighton girl remembers
Life in the Minsterworth Girls Training Corps
Wartime Baby in Sidcup
Wartime Baby in Sidcup
My Life(aged 6) During The War
Raising Funds For The Merchant Navy
No running water for Nailsea evacuees
When Mum rescued me from Retford
PoW torment for a young Gloucestershire war bride
'Just like Guy Fawkes night' - a London schoolboy's war
Playing football - and havoc - with a butterfly bomb in Newent
From TA to D-Day and beyond
Hurricane's unscheduled landing in a field
Bedbound as bombs dropped on London - on doctor's orders!
Evacuated from Folkestone to a Welsh farm
No escape from Bevin Boy call-up
Mock wedding in Gloucester to celebrate Victory
Team who kept Spitfires in radio contact
War life with my Cornwall 'Aunt' and 'Uncle'
My Dad at D-Day - a different breed
Taken prisoner, shot and left with one bullet
On leave in Cairo
Training on the assault course
The night my dead RAF brother 'came home'
From Lofoten to Italy - Part 1
From Lofoten to Italy - Part 3
From Lofoten to Italy - Part 2
From Lofoten to Italy - Part 4
From Lofoten to Italy - Part 5
Life on HMS Kent in the Arctic
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 1
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 2
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 3
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 4
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 5
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 6
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 7
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 8
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 9
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 10
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 11
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 12
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 13
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 14
On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 15
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 1
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 2
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 3 King George VI
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 4
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 5
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 6
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 7
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 8
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 9
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 10
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 11
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 12
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 13
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 14
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 15
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 16
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 17
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 18
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 19
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 20
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 21
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 22
William Wilder's war in the Mediterranean - photo 23
An Egypt tank commander's photo collection - 1
An Egypt tank commander's photo collection - 2
An Egypt tank commander's photo collection - 3
An Egypt tank commander's photo collection - 4
An Egypt tank commander's photo collection - 5
An Egypt tank commander's photo collection - 6
An Egypt tank commander's photo collection - 7
An Egypt tank commander's photo collection - 8
German PoW pal who found me 50 years later
The German PoW toymaker
Unwitting witness to the Battle of Britain
The last time I saw my Navy brother Harry
Have the shorts shrunk?
Naval service, U-boats, D-Day and Japanese Morse Code
PoW band's musical joke on their German captors
'Sure, honey, I can fix it' - when the GIs came to Lydney
Land Girl who saw London burning
Dad's Army service in the RAOC
RAF uncle who fell in love with Rhodesia

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