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15 October 2014
WW2 - People's War

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CSV Actiondesk at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Oxford
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Were you evacuated to Oxfordshire in the war, or were you part of the Home Guard, maybe you had a wartime romance with one of the American GI's? We would really like to hear about your wartime memories of what life was like during that time, whether on the home front, or the war front.

DO YOU HAVE A WARTIME STORY TO TELL?

Until the end of 2005 we will be helping people across Oxfordshire to add their memories of the 2nd World War to the growing People's War archive. If you or someone in your family would like to share a personal memory please contact the CSV Actiondesk at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Oxford on:

Tel: 08459 311222

e-mail: radio.oxford.actiondesk@bbc.co.uk

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Stories contributed by CSV Actiondesk at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Oxford

Memories of War Time in Oxford
A Wartime Wedding
Dennis Ives misses the celebrationsicon for Story with photo
Mutiny in Durban — The Full Story (Part 1)icon for Recommended story
Mutiny in Durban — The Full Story (Part 2)icon for Recommended story
Saving the Bacon
A Vow of Silence
'You haven't got me yet!'
Fire-watching is Fun
Pea-green stockings
The War to a Child of Cumbria
It's Thursday - They'll be Bombing Today
Never Mind the Bombs, Keep in the Dry!
Off to France, September 1939
Mobilisation — September 1939
Glad tidings? France December 1939
Under-age soldier 1939
Night life — France 1939
Evacuating Rennes June 1940
Last out? France June 1940
Memories of a childhood in London during the Blitz
Wirral at War, through the eyes of a young girl
The Land Army, What it was Really Like
My journey home in 1944
Shoe shopping with gas masks
All in the Same Boat - A Childhood Memory of Wartime Britain
Watch out it’s the King
A single roadside grave, it was Spank
Doodlebug to Mars - A Visit to Gran's I'll Never Forget
Growing up in war torn London
We had to … accept
Allied Spy in Bletchley - Part 1
Allied Spy in Bletchley - Part 2
FRom Girlhood to Womanhood in Days - War Shortages Affected Time for Adolescence
Hitting Them over the Heads with Beer Bottles - A Soldier's View of the War
The 16 year old baby
Home Front. A boy’s experience living in a major port.
Ireland in the wartime
The Pilot's Lament
Lucky to be picked out of the sea at Dunkirk
To Suez and beyond
Is tonight the night?
The firemen never noticed us
The firemen never noticed us
Moving memories of D-Day and beyond.
In The Navy
RAF Air Frame Fitter
Repairing Spitfires and Mosquitos
Repairing Damage to Mosquitos
Meeting the Enemy in Italy and on the River Maas
A Wartime Coincidence
The Naughty Boyscout
Fallen knickers
My Memorable Toe!
Young memories of a North Londoner.
Women’s Work throughout the War.
Great Guys, G Is! - A Little Boy Reflects on Wartime Introductions to American Soldiers
Has Rangoon fallen?
ALWAYS JUST THAT LITTLE BIT OF COLD IN THE PIT OF YOUR STOMACHicon for Story with photo
Nosey Neighbours!
Make mine a pint!
Sleeping in the birdcage
Was That Rabbit or Chicken?
Sixty Years Isn't Enough Time to Forget!
Stewed Food, Few Treats, No Dad, but Happy Childhood Days During the War
All the Time You Can Hear Them, They're Not for You
Girls from Guildford
Somerset here we come
War Bride
Morris Motors and Berlin
Something afoot!
‘Trench Mouth’ - Vincennes disease
Most embarrassing moment of my life December 1940
South African hospitality
The desert sun-compass
Choosing the place for a battle — El Alamein July 1941
Tea in Tobruk
Strange meeting in Tobruk
Pumping fuel in Tobruk
Wartime life in Oxford
Evacuated three times and not evacuated
Preparing for the air raids
Rationing
A sad goodbye from Sydney
Poor Old London
Bombs: More Fascinating than Frightening to a Child
Crewe in Wartime - A Child's Picture
War in Old Woodstock
The Food Parcel
Off to Truro? Not
Good night Children
Just like the prisoners of war!
Sand storm
One death in Tobruk
Stuck in Tobruk June 42
Stukas over Tobruk
Writing letters of condolence
Mosquito discipline
Learning to live with a hammock
Knocking us into shape
Meetings and family Partings
Ration clerk
Bellahouston Park Nissen hut campicon for Recommended story
Medical Orderly
Visit to the army dentist
Midges
Reforming after evacuation from France
Evacuation, the Blitz and celebrating the end.
JUST LUCK OR ……………?
World war Two in Suburban Kent - A little girl's Memories
Life without my father - while he was a POW of the Japanese
Nancy’s Memories of Life in the Women’s Land Armyicon for Story with photo
'On the buses' during the blackout
Working to Fight Hitler
German Planes down my High Street
Clearing up The Mess - Someone Has to Do It
Dear Mum, I'm Back Alive, Love George
A Boy's Homefront Experiences.
Fire Watching in Battersea - A Teenager at War
Escorting Mr Churchill and Other Jobs Fit fot a Kiwi
A four year old's memory.
Prisoners of Waricon for Story with photo
A View of the War from South Africa
DIGGING FOR VICTORY; WINSTON AT THE RACES
Many never came home from the war.
Growing up fast on the Homefront
Memories of the WRAF
Evacuated twice
Childhood memories of the war
Village war-time memories
A Girl Guide in Basle
Armistice Day Memory
Sixty Years Ago Today
Sardines to Norway
The Rectory as a billet/no champagne for Winston
A wartime childhood on a farm in Buckinghamshire
Dairy Farming in the Land Army
Vivid Memories
my secret leg and the battle of somme
The Red Cross Experience in BNAF and CMF
tales of an evacuee
operation Manna
A Child's Memories
The Japanese Surrender and the Forgotten Fleet
Sand storm
Reforming after evacuation from France July 1940
Scotish Midges
Visiting the army dentisticon for Recommended story
First day as the medial orderly
Building Bellahouston Park Nissen hut camp
Unexpected arrival and separations
Knocking us into shape
Learning to live with a hammock
Building a hospital at Buseli
Writing letters of condolence
Stukas over Tobruk
Stuck in Tobruk June 1942
St Andrews Golf Course defendedicon for Recommended story
Repairing tank engines
Washing in the desert
Commando training — Birth of the SAS
Delivering water in the desert
Making vehicle springs in the desert
Waiting for capture in Tobrukicon for Recommended story
Dam busting practice
Pigs in the wood
Sheffield Blitz
D Dayicon for Recommended story
Keeping in touch
Perpetual volunteer
Battle in the Channel December 43
Silent destroyer
Coincidence at Christmas
Forming the ‘Home Guard’
Feeding England
The domestic pig
Rationing - Mars Bars and oranges. Unpleasant picture houses
Battle of Britain Skies; Irony on Stage during the Blitz - 'Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwardsicon for Story with photo
'Please can we shelter?' - advantages of being prepared
Strange Charm
Carry on
The shock and preparations at the beginning; bombing, air raids and Dunkirk evacuees; gas works bombed - town Sunday lunches cooked at bakery; rationing
Morrison shelter; Cleethorpes pier on fire; oranges, bananas, eggs and sweets.
Christmas washing up - a waste of time!; Everyone safe in canteen.
Battle of Britain from the dormitory; Home Guard; Historic buildings saved.
Battle of Britain from my dormitory; Historic buildings saved; Home Guard.
Bodies or Dummies?
Doodlebugs
THANKS TO HITLER I MET MY HUSBAND
ALWAYS THE SIDE ENTRANCE
SALVAGE AT CHEDDAR GORGE
60 Years Ago!
THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD
IT WAS A VERY PECULIAR TIME
WHICH BOMB WILL FALL ON ME?
Cathelene Dike — World War 2 memories.
Melvyn Millard — World War 2 memories.
Nancy Holton — World War 2 memories
John parker — World War 2 memories.
Recollections of Cadena Café and Oxford
My childhood in Bladon
From fields to doodlebugs - Somerset to Islington
Doodlebug interruption - Darenth, Kent
Devastation at breakfast - A Doodlebug in Selhurst
Recollections of a Military Nurse
An Encounter with the Hangman
Leros 1943 and the aftermath
Defending Upper Langford - my father and the Germans
Memories of the 2nd World War 1939-1945
SIT BACK AND LISTEN TO THE MUSIC
BUTCHER'S BOY JOINS THE ROYAL AUXILIARY AIR FORCE
Childhood in the Midlands During the War Years
NO PLACE FOR WIMPS
VJ Day, the day I met the man with the big feet!icon for Story with photo
WE SHOULD HAVE HAD THE BACON AND EGGS FIRST
The Day the Bomb Dropped on Our Village
A MARVELLOUS TIME FOR A BOY
Home Front - A Rude Awakening.
No Time For Pie
Around the world in a war
Friend or Foe?
Wartime School
A light in times of darkness
Wake up man, war is over!
A sweet side to evacuation!
Cold Comfort
The amazing view of the faces, by a child of the 1943 Reading bombers
History repeats itselficon for Story with photo
Misery in Gloucestershire
Doodlebug Overhead!
D Day landings: June 1944
Living in the Blitz
Life in the Blitz
Joining up and the first trip overseas
Ron Haynes remembers being a messenger for the ARP
Bombing Bicester
Scouts & a Magistrate at Bicester
An adventure with the Air Training Corps
Two on a bike in Bicester, as told by Ronald Haynes!
Changes in a small town
Checkmate
A daring doodlebug
A bomb fest
Sniggers
Liberation of Venice
First troops in Venice
First troops in Venice
The Fire Service by Joyce Harries
Bill's four-year absence as told by Joyce
Ping Pong to Hamburg
The mysterious plane
A Gentle War Oct 27th - Nov 15th 1942
A Gentle War 16 Nov - 30 Nov 1942
A Gentle War Dec 1st - 10th 1942
A Gentle War Dec 11th - 20th 1942
A Gentle War Dec 21st - 31st 1942
A Gentle War Jan 1st - 15th 1943
A Gentle War 16th Jan - 31 Jan 1943
A Gentle War 1st Feb - 15th Feb 1943
A Gentle War Feb 16th - 28th 1943
Living in the British Empire’s main port.

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