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Collection of Wartime Anecdotes
Dig for Victory
The Day War Broke Out
My Sledge
School days
Cardboard Icing
A Pair of Stockings
Letters to Home
Evacuees
Close Encounter
Childhood Memories - one day after school ...
Childhood Memories - During a Bombing Raid
Childhood Memories - Chewing Gum from the G.I's
Childhood Memories - Upwey Wishing Well
Wartime Childhood
Early Days of WW2
My Wartime Memories - The End of the War Celebrations
My Wartime Memories - The Start of the War
Khaki Day
School Days
Schoolboy's Memories: Life in Nottingham
School Days
N.F.S. (National Fire Service)
My Girlfriend Peggy Brown
A Child's Story
A Day We Will Never Forget
My Memories of World War 2
A Blast From the Past
A Near Miss
My War Years Remembering
Evacuation, A Naughty Boy and A Parachute Silk Wedding Dress
A Civilian's War
A Childhood in Wartime Brisbrooke (School)
A Childhood in Wartime Bisbrooke (Home)
Memories of World War 2
My Childhood Memories of World War II (Part I: War is Declared and Evacuees)
My Childhood Memories of World War II (Part II: Whissendine's Searchlight Unit and Prisoner of War Camp)
My Childhood Memories of World War II (Part III: Air-Raids)
My Childhood Memories of World War II (Part IV:Rationing)
My Childhood Memories of World War II (Part V: Village Entertainment and the End of the War)
My Story: War Baby Living Under Ground on a Bomb Site!
Wartime Childhood
From Blighty To Burma
Schoolboy Memories
Food
A Long War
The Perfect Den
A surprise pet
RAF SERVICE
Fire on Ship
Saved by a scarf!
Miscellaneous Memories
VE Celebrations
The Games We Played
Wireless (Radio)
Hollesley
St. John's , Surrey
Norwich
St. John's , Surrey
Shelters coming down
My father
The end of war parties
Civilian Apprentice to German S.S. Forced Conscript
German Raider over Leicester in daylight
Leicester 'Blitz'
Allotments
Hitler's Personal Bodyguard
Music on the Streets
Coventry Blitz
Barrage Balloon
Sweets from the Americans
Leicester's 'Dad's Army'
Blackouts
Air Raid Practise at School
Arrival of American Soldiers
Underground Munitions Factory
Allotment Demonstration
Wounded in Normandy Battle
Hollesley , Suffolk
Air Raid Memories
A bed in a bath
War Memories
Nuneaton Blitz
Holy Trinity Infant School
Family
The Baby
Christmas 1943
Dad's Homecoming
False Alarm
End of the War
Tommy's War
Tommy in the Squadron band
Eating Utensils
War Memories
Earliest Memories
East End Devastation
Time as a "Fire Watcher"
Good Fortune
Lost Friends and Relatives
Home Guard to the ATC
WAR TIME MEMORIES
Tall Story
Training
Electric Atmosphere
Can anyone help? Route-march through France '39
Stories from the States
Stories from the States
Stories From the Sea
Splice the Main Brace
THREE TIMES A WIDOW
Flying and Landing
Close Shaves and Amusing Incidents
Taking a knock
WAR TIME MEMORIES
They can keep it!
German and Japanese Surrender
COALMINER and FIREFIGHTER
Code of Silence
Reflections
Introduction
Lights Out
At School
A "Real Trooper"
"Okey Pokey"
In The Shelters
Egg and Milk
Evacuees
On their way to Coventry
Planees on Display
Training
Training
Cottesmore, Rutland
Topcliffe, Yorkshire
Topcliffe, Yorkshire
Ceylon
Training
Planes on Display
"Any Gum, Chum"
"Cats Away!"
"When The Lights Come On Again"
memories of my Dad - Navy Days (D.M.)
Nearly missing the ship (D.M.)
Dad's claim to fame and a rocky journey across the Atlantic (D.M.)
A close shave(D.M.)
Lewis Gun in Victoria Park
German Surrender
The Blitz in Leicester
German Measles!
Dad's War
Life in Chesterfield
The Blitz in Chesterfield
16 YR. OLD GIRL ARP. EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS MESSENGER
R.A.F. AIR SEA RESCUE
PLAYING WITH RADAR CHAFF
"My Dog"
A "Real trooper" - another picture
Soldier Boy - now a Real Trooper!
Evacuees in Leicester!
A Fast Wedding!
Yorkshire life
Air raids in Leicester
D. Day Invasion (2)
D.Day Invasion (1)
Rationing
Young Days in the A.T.S.
Silk Stockings
Chocolate
The Radio
Childhood Memories
American Visitors!
Anti-Aircraft Guns
Bombs and Swaps
Dropping Supplies
War Memories
Shelters
School Dinners
End of War Party
Games
Gas Masks and Home Guard
Brothers
Bomb Dropped
Rationing and Weddings
Part of My War (School Days)
Part of My War (Cellars of Leicester Castle)
MEMORIES OF WAR THROUGH A CHILDS EYES ( MUMS WAR EFFORT)
Memories of War Through a Child's Eyes (A.R.P. Dad)
MEMORIES OF WAR THROUGH A CHILDS EYE (HOME ON LEAVE)
Convoys and Lend-Lease Eggs
Hush-Hush Towers
My Holiday in Torquay (P.M.)
My Holiday in Torquay (P.M.)
Rationing and Wartime Recipes (P.M.)
When War Broke Out
The Blasts
Rationing
My Wedding
What We Did As Past Times
End of War Party
"Was It All A Dream" ( Part 1 )
Tour of Operations , Bomber Command
Tour of Operations , Bomber Command
Tour of Operations -2
Tour of Operations , Bomber Command
Tour of Operations - 3
Our Pub during the War
The Tip
Smoking and Fights
Going to School, Walking to Bradgate and Bombs
Our Air Raid Shelter & My Dad's Near Miss
Rationing and Food
Games
My Family
School Shelters
Sunday School
Creeping Out To Go Dancing and Chewing Gum
Tour of Operations - 5
Tour of Operations -6
Tour of Operations
Tour of Operations
Tour of Operations
Evacuee Alfredo Sails into History
When the War Started
My Family
An Evacuee Came To Stay
The Bombs and Air Raids
Past Times
Food
Health
Savings and Iron Railings
End of the War
Tour of Operations -8
Tour of Operations
Tour of Operations
Tour of Operations
Tour of Operations
Tour of Operations
Tour of Operations
Tour of Operations
Tour of Operations -9
TOOL GRINDER TO RAF GERMANY
Tour of Operations -10
Getting Married
Fire Service
First Day
Courting
Lucky Escape
Not In My Back Yard
THE MORRISON TABLE
AMBUSHING THE HOME GUARD
WESTERN APPROACHES
BITS AND PIECES OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS
Hearing War declared
rationing and evacuees.
A consequence of War- friendship and matrimony.
INTELLIGENCE PATTERNS FROM WW2 TO 2005
AUSTRALIAN EQUIPMENT
Bombs at Shatterford
Rationing on the Farm
SCHOOL and WAR versus CHILD: 1942
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF WAR SEPTEMBER3RD, 1939-JUNE7TH, 1945
LIFE OF A TEENAGER-TWENTY ONE DURING WW11.
ARMY DAM BUSTER
Gas Mask please?"
Normal life in St Albans
LONDON ROAD STATION
GLEANING,FIREWATCH, HOMEGUARD
WHEN THE GHOST WALKED
JAPANESE TORTURE
DO OUR BIT
MY FIRST VISIT TO JERSEY ( C.I.)
WW2 MEMORIES
My Dance Partner
My Wedding Day
My Squad
Our Group
My Group
My Memories of the War - Part 1
My Memories of the War - Part 2: School Days
My Memories of the War - Part 3: Our Village
My Memories of the War - Part 4: Towards the End of the War
My Memories of the War - Part 5: Looking Back
Conciencious Siren / Fire Warden
RECCE SPITFIRE - 9 TIMES SHOT DOWN
ANDERSON SHELTERS
RATIONING
COVENTRY BLITZ
WRAF-SHRAPNEL IN THE HEAD
Living and Working in London In WW2
MACHINE GUNNING THE WORKERS
CAPTURED IN POLAND
JAPANESE TORTURE TECHNIQUES
HALF-A-CROWN FOR A GERMAN PILOT
Memories of Asia
School Days During the War
Cigarette Rationing
War Time Evacuation
My family During The War
The Day War Broke Out
Airforce
Air Raid Shelters
School
Hitch Hiking
Our Car
World War Two Memories
Food
Toys
Wedding
BELGIUM REFUGEE
OCCUPIED TO LIBERATION
Who is the enemy?
Doubtful allies
Ill wind?
A Night to Remember
Rationing
Evacuees
Teenage Memories
AMERICAN ADVENTURE, WW2 STYLE
Wedding Day
Memories
Unexpected Visitor
Family Life
A song we children sang during those war years
Dunkirk Survivors
Home life in Nottingham
Wartime holidays
WORST NIGHT OF MY LIFE
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
UNEXPECTED BONUS
CHANCE REUNION
FINDING OUT ABOUT THE END OF THE WAR WITH JAPAN
Holy Water!
One Man's War
Leicester Air.
The War from Beginning to End
DANGLING ON A ROPE
EVACUATED
IN THE SHELTER
UNCLE PHIL ON THE MINESWEEPERS
BOWLED OUT FROM BURMA
Racism
Air Raid Shelters
Frozen Joy
The BlackMarket
The Atomic Bomb
A Lone Bomber
Evacuated
CONKERS
BLIGHTY TO FRANCE AND DUNKIRK
DUNKIRK TO BLIGHTY
DUNKIRK TO BLIGHTY TO ITALY
Oronsay Final Voyage
Memories of 1939-45 War
A Near Thing
FED BY THE ENEMY
MY FAMILIES CASUALTY ROLL OF HONOUR
BLUE MEMORIES
COMMUNICATIONS COMMANDER
POW in Germany
A Near Miss and then a POW in Japan
Rationing / False Teeth
Living In Ashby
My War Memories
My Wedding and Life During the War
A SLIP UP
THE COLOUR BLUE
SCHOOLBOY MEMORIES
The Day War Broke Out
My Missing Brother
GERMANS KILLED THEIR OWN WOUNDED
SCHOOLBOY TO HOME GUARD TO SHIPWRIGHT
SYDNEY TO HONG KONG RECLAIMED
V.J. DAY THE ENDING OF WW2
War Memories
Nurse During The War
The Experiences of a 6 year old London Evacuee
Shelters, Blackouts and the End of the War
Rationing, Past Times and Clothing Coupons
BOMBERS MOON
VE Day Party at the Fire Station
WORLD WAR 2
Group Training
Dad In India
My Uncle the Fireman
My National Registration Card
Me as a young child
A photograph of me and my mum
My House During The War
Bombs, shelters and the end of the war
THUNDERFLASHES
Life in Wartime Britain
Memories of father going away and coming home
War Memories as a Young Girl
Munitions and Married During the War
Working at the GPO and Getting Married
My Father
Wartime Memories
The Air Raid Shelters
Kenneth William Spencer
Living In Cosby
In Hospital
Marjorie's War
V - DISC'S
Teenagers in wartime
Memories
Air Raids in London
My husband George
The Missing Sausage
Aden Airforce Memories
Prisoner of War
Landmine Hanging In A Parachute
Evacuees
GRIM AND BEER - IT
White Wedding
Auxiliary Territorial Service
British United Shoe Machinery Company
Our Memories of the War (sisters)
Bombing
MERRICANS
Meeting my husband
School Teacher
Childhood Memories
A Doodle Bug Bombed Our House
Ramsgate Evacuee - 7 Schools in 7 Years
Love over the hot-plate!
From Narborough Village to Malta and Back Again - 1939-1946
My Lancashire War
Machine Gun Terror
Traffic Light Sandwiches
My War Time Memories
School in World War 2
Sweet Rations
Sweet Rations
V1 Flying Bombs
Falmouth around VE Day
A Little Girls Memories
Working at the Chemist
The Bombs of Merry Vale Avenue in Hinckley
Wren
Working and Married During the War
My Memories
Evacuated
My wedding
Shelter, Blackouts, Rationing
In hospital
A Childs Wartime Memories
Wartime Memories
WEDDING CAKE
WEDDING CAKE (2)
JAPANESE INTERNEE AND INTERPRETER
MY WAR 1939 / 46
THE WAR FROM MY YOUNG LIFE, AS A TEENAGER.
MEMORIES OF THE MARTIN FAMILY
MEMORIES OF THE MARTIN FAMILY (B)
KENT 1 EVACUEE
Growing up in the war
The Mademoiselle
I volunteered for the Airforce
5 years old when war started
I was nine years old when war started
War Memories
In the Land Army
Farming Life
Evacuee
London Life
My work and my wedding
Nursing
The end of war party
Letters from India
A Boy From the Blitz
HOLE IN THE PARLOUR
Jacko's Story
AUSTRIAN INCIDENT
FRIENDLY FIRE OF HUDSON OVER KENT
SPECIAL W.A.A.F. MORSE CODE OPERATORS
A BIRMINGHAM CHILDS WAR MEMORY
Childhood Memories
Young Child growing up in the War
War Time Activities
A Day to Remember: May 8th 1945
Life in the R.A.M.C
HURRY 6am - Breakfast won't wait !
HURRY 6am - Breakfast won't wait !
"I'm glad it didn't go off!"
Invasion Preparations, June 4/5 1944
A NIGHT OF TERROR
Ana's War
My Childhood Memories of WWII
First Aid Raid
The Road to Downing Street
Conscientious Objector
ANGELS IN HOBNAIL BOOTS
BILLY BROWN OF LONDON TOWN
DOODLEBUGS AND THE CORRIDOR
CELLAR BEDROOM
CARDBOARD WEDDING CAKE
LONDON BLITZ
A Boy from the Blitz
Married life/working life in the War
My Memories
My Memories
War Memories
War Memories
I played football with the boys
Life During the War
Training As A Nursery Nurse
Goodnight Children Everywhere (1)
Goodnight Children Everywhere (2)
Goodnight Children Everywhere (3)
Goodnight Children Everywhere (4)
Goodnight Children Everywhere (5)
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MARY WHITES LIFE AS A TEENAGER IN WW2
DOODLEBUGS
Child In The War
(1) Jean's Evacuation; (2) A young girl in Leicester
War Time Hello Girl
A Young Person's War
World War II - Eileen Parsons Remembers ......
World War II - Eileen Parsons remembers, PART 2...
LEICESTERSHIRE AT WAR
THE VERY THIN BROWN LINE
FIRE-WATCHING
Office Evacuation
Expereinces at Sheffield Head Post Office
A Wartime Romance - Fifty Years On
DMT
A YOUNG CHILDS PERSPECTIVE OF THE PEOPLES WAR
My Childhood Memories
Meteorological Information
FROM BEGONIAS TO BOMBERS
Memories of Doris
War Time Memories
War Time Comradeship in Services
Memories Pasted Down From My Dad
Memories of the War
THOUGHTS OF BOY IN WAR YEARS ( ANDERSON SHELTER)
War Memories
Teenage Wedding, A Lucky War and other memories
Saved by the light in the Blackout
The War that wasn't
My War Effort!
I was five years old when the war started
THE FRIENDSHIP THAT KNEW NO FRONTIERS
BOYS BADLY TREATED IN VILLAGE
BOMBING RUN
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
SEARCHLIGHTS AND HESSIAN
TELEGRAM JUNE and TRAVELLING PICTURE SHOWS
Card Home
Pictures of My Family
Letter Home
Letters Sent Home From my Brother
Letter From My Brother
Letters Home
Letters Home
Record of Contributions
LOOKING BACK
THE ROOF FELL OFF

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