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15 October 2014

WW2 - People's War

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CSV Solent

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Welcome to the CSV Media/´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Solent People's War page. Over the last six or so months, we've been helping local people add their WW2 stories to the People's War website.

Unfortunately the project has come to an end now and we're no longer able to accept stories for the archive. If you have already sent your story in though don't worry, we will be adding it to the site just as soon as we can.

Thanks to our great team of volunteers we've collected some amazing stories. Some are moving, some are funny, but all help to paint a picture of what the Second World War was really like for people in the Solent area - and beyond. So please feel free to browse and we hope that you get as much out of your visit as we did putting it all together.

Stories contributed by CSV Solent

John Russell's Evacuation during 1939/1945
Audrey's War Time Adventures: War is Declared
Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 1: Back to School - September 1939
Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 2 : Joan, My Sisterâ€™s Story - London 1940
Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 3 : Torquay Station - the Night in the Jeep 1944
Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 4: More Oranges - June 1944 â€œYanks Confined to barracksâ€
Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 5: German POWs - Essex 1944
Audrey's wartime Adventures -Part 6: US Airforce bike repairs - Andrewâ€™s field, Great Saling Essex 1943
Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 7: David and the Greek Prince - 1944
Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 8: Turkish Pilots - May 1944
Wartime in the New Forest as a child.
ATS aboard the Georgic bound for Italy.
My Life as a W.A.A.F. Part One - Balloons
My Life as a W.A.A.F Part Two - Goodbye balloons â€” hello Morse code!
From Schoolboy to Shunter - Part One Life on the Isle of Wight
from schoolboy to shunter - Part Two Working on the main land
W.A.A.F. Radar - On Duty 1944 (South Devon)
W.A.A.F. Radar - On Duty 1945 (Cornwall - The Lizard)
Lighting up the City of London
The submarine that refused to be destroyed
It's showering tins of corn beef
Collecting for their Bottom Drawer
Early morning bath
In the Thick of It
Breaking the Code
HMS â€˜Queen Elizabethâ€™ 1945
Operations against the Japanese aboard the Queen Elizabeth
Bombardment - continuing life aboard the Queen Elizabeth
Sinking the Haguro - continuing life aboard the Queen Elizabeth
My Final Days on Board the Queen Elizabeth
On Board the Nelson
Operation Jurist and the end of the War
Life in the Home Guard on D-Day
Occupation of Jersey
In Search of Harry, Just Before D-Day
Tales of the SEP - Special Erection Party
Going to see the King â€” the V.E. day celebrations of an 8 year old
Evacuation to Oxford
V.E. Day honeymoon
Audrey's Wartime Adventures part 9 :my family
A schoolboyâ€™s version of V.E. Day
Wedding in 1944
The Sheffield blitz
Olive Joins the WRENs
My First Posting by Olive the WREN
Olive the WREN in Liverpool
From Clock Maker to the R.A.F. Mutiny.
Dad's Priorities
OCCUPATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
SCHOOLDAYS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR - part one
schooldays during the second world war - part two
Yes we have no bananas
The Anderson shelter.
Reminiscences - from School Books to Service Life
Village Esprit de Corps
My Ireland Home
Second Chance
Mind the Doors!
Above it All
BREECHES TO BELL BOTTOMS
saved by the ditch
The Pet Dog Which Nearly Invaded Normandy
The jeep with the klaxon
Blaze over Canning Town
Left till last
the german powcamp next door
And some there be who have no memorial
A child of the 'War in Europe' viewed from Portsmouth UK
Early years of the Second World War
Remembering Victory Celebrations
15th September 1941 - A poem
The Luftwaffe, the Hedge-hog and my Mum
Evacuated to Polegate
Wartime Memories
A strange encounter
Great escape from a burning school
Wartime Experiences
A Wartime Childhood in West Wales
Life in the WAAF by P Bruzard
A Conshy's Tale
The Sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse
Reflections on life in the 2nd Devons
childhood recollections of the war
Extracts from a War time childhood in Ringwood
Christmas Eve 1941 - Special RAF Operation
Dawn's War
The Americans in Broadstone and D-Day
Nancy recalls her service with the WRNS at Station X
King for a Day with Big Feet and Chewing Gum
Escape to the Country
Education During the War Years
Growing Up During Wartime
The children come first
Evacuated to an Irish Castle
VE Day in Lerwick
A Merchant Seaman's experiences
Meeting at Chilwell
A taste of banana
My Wartime Memories
'It'll be a cold lunch today'
â€˜Never Mind, Mummy, It's Only Land Mines Droppingâ€™
Ten Minutes to Pack
From Hoeing Kale to MI-14
From the City to the Plough
WW2 in Rural Surrey - A Child's-Eye View
Walking the dog on a Winchester golf course
Horses to the Rescue
Entertaining the Resting Soldiers
A Wartime Childhood in Suburban, Kent
My WW2 recollections
They said it was A Miracle
Landmine, Buzz-bomb and Escape from Jersey CI
Joan's War
Souvenirs
Ray's memory of VE night
Harold's War
Keeping the Wheels Turning
'Rudolf Hess was there'
Air Raids in Eastleigh
H.M.S. Foylebank - Part One
H.M.S. Foylebank - Part Two
H.M.S. Foylebank - Part Three
My Wartime Life as an Army child - part one - the Middle East
My Wartime Life as an Army child - part two - to South Africa
My Wartime Life as an Army child - part three - from South Africa to back home
The rules of childhood during the war - from broken biscuits and sing-a-longs.
From Oklahoma to Omaha Beach - an American's story
Christal's wartime childhood memories
My naval journey from Portsmouth to Singapore and Indonesia
How the ´óÏó´«Ã½ made my war bearable
my memories of the war by John Plumtree
Dot's war
Joan, The Graveyard Evacuee
Stan and Andy - Dunstable
Corporal Bob Davis's Wartime Memories
Wounded at Arnhem
The Paper Boy
Experience of An Evacuee
Edna's Story
George's Memory of the Home Guard
Betty's days as an army cook
Help! Mines! The War Comes To Rosslare
The Great And The Glamorous Captain Matt O'Neill!
bombed on a bus
Vaux Brewery bombing
I'll die in my bed
The Tin Bath
Seeing The First Doodlebug Over London
"The Saddest Day Of My Life"
Out Walking The Dog
Passing The Devastation Of Tooting
The VE Day Bonfires
Breakout of War
Experience of Childhood Evacuation
Looking Back
Frightening Sights - The Blitz
How I learnt to drive - anything
Preparing for D Day
A Selection of autographs
Wartime experiences of Derek Ashcroft extracted from his autobiography part one
Wartime experiences of Derek Ashcroft extracted from his autobiography part two
VJ Day letter home from a nurse in Sydney
Hilda Day's Wartime Memories at Typhoo
Wilfred(Bill) Fraser's Wartime Memories
Jo Wright's (nee Jay) Memories of Swansea
Evelyn Collyer's (Nee Collier) Wartime Memories
Stories my Dad (Fred Hockin) told me
A DIFFERENT EVACUEE STORY
Audrey's Wartime Adventures part 10 :Mrs Ellis and the nanny goat
Had Hitler known!
Norman's War
My personal memories of World War 2
Memories of a Captain in the Indian Army in Burma
Wartime Memories
Evacuation and Tragic News
A quiet War in Wales and other places by Alan Hakim
VE Day - one of the least memorable days of my four years in the Army
How our holiday photos may have helped the war effort!
Ashley Farm and Memories of Glen Miller
Gifts in my Garden
Sea Grave for Smashed Planes
MY BATTLES WITH VON-TIRPITZ, APPENDICITIS and KAMIKAZE
Frank James (Jim) Masters' Fleet Air Arm Service 1940 - 1943
Wartime Childhood Memories In Poole
Wartime childhood memories from East Dorset
The First Night of the VI's - The Doodlebug
The First Night of the VI's - The Doodlebug
HMS Volage Part One :The Stewart Sound Incident - A crew Member's Recollections
What About â€˜Dâ€™ Day?
Ron Wallbank's war
Gold Beach
The Barmaid and the Butcher
Patchwork reminiscences
HMS Volage Part Two :The Reluctant Survivors
Dodging the Doodlebugs
'Blitz' Poem
Strange Encounters in Burma
A Secret Weapon in the fall of Hitler
Shows for the Soldiers - and Reminiscing
Don't Cry
The Wartime Memories of Shirley Miles (nee Greenen) : Fate and Peter Panda
The Wartime Memories of Leslie Dobson : Unwanted evacuees from Peckham
Patricia Edwards' Teenage Memories of the War Years
A Polish Wartime Childhood
I was lucky, I enjoyed my time in the Army.
A WAAF remembers
an ex-Dukie in Japan
What the cat got , my first nylons and other recollections
Air raids and curtains
Portsmouth Air raids and my memories
Hiding in the coal cupboard during air raids
How Hitler kept me out of Portsmouth!
A Portsmouth wartime childhood
From delivery boy to soldier - how I grew up during the war.
The Day that my number nearly came up
My Final Act
Where are they now? Photo one - the workhouse HQ
Where are they now? Photo two - eager recruits
Where are they now? Photo three - the pilot
How I survived a North Wales Boarding School.
Bullet holes and Rosaries - my wartime childhood
My childhood memories and how my father helped the war effort
The night a bomb came through the roof and other memories
Sams war by Jane Foster
Vicky Buonvino"s wartime memories (1)
Vicky Buonvino's Wartime Memories (2)
Everything is possible, the impossible just takes a little longer
Sam's War part two by Jane Foster
Sam's War part three by Jane Foster
â€œThey say the good die young, so I guess I must be evilâ€
LIEUTENANT COLONEL MICHAEL BAGSTAFF's MEMORIES
Sam's War Part Four by Jane Foster
War and a Family - Part 1
War and a Family - Part 2
War and a Family Part - 3
War and a Family Part - 4
War and a Family Part - 5
War and a Family Part - 6
War and a Family Part - 7
War and a Family Part - 8
Evacuations and Weddings - A Birth and a Rocket
The Day that My Number Nearly Came Up
A Toddler's Tale
A WAAF who wore "Sparks"
L. Sgt Moody's letters from the front part one
L.Sgt Moody's letters from the front part two
Childhood memories from the Griffiths
Childhood war memories of Mrs Greta Moody
Childhood memories of Mr Peter Moody
A WREN's memories
an evacuee's memories
Wartime gifts and parcels
A Canadian pilot in Orkney
My war in the Wrens by Pauline Sperring
Southampton Guildhall and the war
My close encounter with a doodlebug - twice!
A near miss
From Little Acorns!
Snapshots of a wartime childhood
DOODLEBUG HITS KENSAL GREEN STATION ( NORTH WEST LONDON)
CHILDREN IN THE WAR IN NORTHWEST LONDON.
TOYS CHILDREN MADE IN THE WAR
MEMORIES OF THE SHELTER
BOMB ON HOUSE NEXT DOOR DURING BLITZ
COURTSHIP AND MOTHERHOOD IN THE WAR
GERMAN SOLDIERS IN WAR OCCUPIED HOLLAND
FINDING FOOD IN OCCUPIED HOLLAND
THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR IN HOLLAND
EXECUTION OF 12 PEOPLE IN HAARLEM
WE ALSO ATE TULIP BULBS
LIFE AS A SCHOOLBOY IN HOLLAND DURING THE WAR.
EVERYDAY LIFE IN LISSE (HOLLAND) FOR A CHILD DURING THE WAR
A Royal Visit
Sam's War

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