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A child's memory of the war in Sevenoaks

I remember standing on Sevenoaks station with my gasmask on my back when all of a sudden a doodlebug bomb...

Memories of evacuation

I was evacuated with 3 of my sisters on September 4th 1939 from Wandsworth to Witney, Oxford. Fortunately...

Memories of Estate Children

Our father was at Sutton Hoo for about 20 years, and during that time he found Mrs Pretty's son Robert...

Dunkirk 1940: Evacuated Family from Lille

The British Consul in Lille had promised to let us know of impending danger, but he left quickly without...

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Schools, Anderson Shelters and Shops: Childhood Memories of Norwich

It later became a bus station and after that a car park....

Early Years of the War

At the start of the last war I was enjoying a summer break with Mum and Dad and my younger brother and...

An Early Air Raid: On Guildford

It must have been shortly afterwards that we were walking on Pewley Downs, which were at the back of our...

Little Allan: Childhood Memories of East London

My father had gone off to fight the Hun soon afetr arriving in Greece was reported as "missing"....

A Child in WW2: In Accrington

Our Northern town of Accrington happily escaped the bombing — except for one miscalculated bomb which...

Baby Evacuee: London to Worcestershire

Lord Ismay was a member of the War Cabinet and spent a great deal of time in London but when he did...

V1 attack on Castleford Avenue, New Eltham, SE London

I recall either being pushed or finding myself behind the settee, and seeing a blinding flash in the bay...

Evacuation September 1939

The girls I was with had fled Germany before the war, Anita Rosenburn and Elisa Muller. In the evenings,...

Evacuation from Birmingham to Derbyshire

We lived on the borders of Birmingham very near to Sutton Park they said the German Pilots would see where...

The Blitz

I remember Dell's factory Grafton Road, Kentish Town being bombed, ariel torpedoed. I saw my first dead...

Child Point of view

I was put to bed in the cupboard under the stairs every night just to be safe. My aunty Grace who was...

The War for Me

He didn't want his wife and three children to be n Edinburgh in case of bombing, so he arranged for us...

Air Raids Over Jarrow

Dad used the railway sleepers to make bunks for us and we children slept in the Anderson shelter every...

The War of Two Sailors part Oneicon for Story with photo

Emil Weingaertner was working as a seventeen year old farm labourer at Banat, near Timisora, Romania when...

Mike and Grace Birbeck

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ memories My father was the Civil Defence Controller for the Chepstow area; he had an office in the...

When We Were 'Invaded'

As a child livng in Bodmin, we were brought up on a diet of propaganda via such illustrated magazines as...

War in Burma: Letters ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ from a Brave Father

My father served in Burma during the 2nd World War - he was in the Artillary, his name Bdr.W.J.Eldridge...

Memories of an Enfield Schoolgirl

I was a young schoolgirl in Enfield, North London, during the war. When the blitz started we huddled under...

Weeding Carrots

My sister and I were evacuated from London with our school in 1939 and were sent first to Brentwood, Essex,...

A Schoolboy in Wartime

A few bombs were dropped on the town, but we were lucky mot to have more, Church St. lost an electrical...

A Boyhood in a Wartime England; Part 5

On one uneasily spent night, as my two sisters and I sat quietly along with our grandparents in the house...

A failed raid in Birmingham

A few hundred yards down the road was a large Traffic Island, with a battery of Search Lights and a battery...

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