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Family and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½: Evacuated to Beeswing, Dumfries

Yes, I remember the journey with awe; Every march, every line-up, every queue, Each call, from, "just...

The First Time I Saw Someone Killed

I was asleep in bed with my brother when our mother came into our bedroom and said the bombs are getting...

Our Evacuation from Leeds to Ilkley - Dorothy Williamson nee Threlfal

The bus from Ilkley to Leeds did not have a problem until arriving at Hyde Park corner, where my brother...

Evacuees: From Belfast to Maghera

Early in 1940 my brother George, sister May and my cousin Kenneth and myself were evacuated from Belfast to...

Wartime in the Countryside

When the first of the bombs dropped on London our home was badly damaged, so my father decided through the...

My War Experience in North Northumberland

My mother had a baby girl early in 1940, and shortly after this event, we had to go to a big house...

War for a Country Boy

We would be sent to an aircraft crash, and occasionally we would come across bits of bodies — arms,...

Evacuation from Leeds to Driffield - Marion Reyner

A cousin took me in his car to Driffield where I had an aunt and uncle. Iasked Uncle where Auntie was....

A Child's Courage in Wartime

From Surlingham we could watch the air raids in Norwich in safety. My sister came home from the playing...

Two Chosen for Evacuation: Heston to Hoyland

I lived in Heston, near Heston Aerodrome, where Neville Chamberlain landed and declared Peace in Our Time...

John Millar-The Last Bomber Over Manchester.

John Millar-The Last Bomber Over Manchester. I found out later on that it was the last bomber raid in...

Evacuations and Other Experiences

In 1940 my brother and I were evacuated to West Meon, Hampshire. Southampton was a base area and tonnes of...

My School During WW2

We started knitting scarves and ballaclavas, mittens and seaboot stockings and were thrilled when we...

A Chocsit Bigsit [part II]

I know little of such important folk My brother put his foot in it at our first meal, when he interrupted...

A wartime childhood in the Salford Docks by Doreen Millington (nee Pennington)

As we were going up Oldfield Road, we were being shot at, the bullets hit a big wooden door as we ran...

The Children's Overseas Reception Scheme

There were four sailers per boat with lots of children... There were 300 Children on the boat....

The Evacuee

How we loved Auntie Jane and Uncle Tom, they were like angels in a foreign land to us, also Auntie...

Wartime to a Child

I remember one when the four of us children rode in an army lorry full of paper with a big notice, "ALL...

Meeting dad

By the time I was four he had left England and begun the great adventure of his life, sailing round Africa...

Evacuees in Devon, and Dad's Accidental Death

Living in Budleigh Salterton in Devon which seemed a million miles from Fulham in London... Mum took it in...

evacuation experience: London to Chesterfield

It was a tearfull time for us all,there were many chidren on the platforms a clutching their cases and with...

Evacuee

At the outbreak of the Second World War, I was nine years of age and one of four childen living with my...

The Blitz of Plymouth and its Suburbs.

Myself and my neighbour's daughter, Beryl Rodgers, were standing in our doorway watching the gunfire...

"Stonehouse" - The Blitz, from a Boy of the Period

The wounded troops were taken to the Royal Marine Barracks close by or the Royal Naval Hospital,...

Sheila's Story: Evacuation from London to Tredegar

With no care from her mother and an alcoholic father, Sheila and the same two younger sisters who had left...

Being a 5 Year Old: On the Isle of Wight

It was at this time that my parents would take the car, as they did have one out of Cowes up into...