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Being Evacuated

My sister was at school and had lots of friends there... There was one man there who was orphaned during...

Evacuee, A Sister for Life

She nursed Robert through a very long illness until he died. If I phone her husband will shout ‘Dora,...

From Junior School

When we left the station and walked down Fulham Palace Road, I needed a drink of water and went into a...

Little Evacuee Girl.

I got picked out quickly,but very politely I told them I was sorry but I was staying with my little friend...

My Grandparents Being Taken Back to the War

A week later, all schools had been bombed and the english forces had to figure out a plan to secure the...

Evacuee in Hinckley in WW2.

I was evacuated from Coventry, where the bombing was really bad, and sent to Hinckley to stay with my...

A Sneak Raid in South East London

Later we learned that the second raider had tried to machine gun the gas works at Sydenham, and had dropped...

Father’s Return from War

My father was serving in the army in Belgium, and he was injured and contracted T.B. He was then sent, in a...

War Time Memories

He had been shot by one of our soldiers who presumed he was the enemy..he was infact English. I remember my...

The Other Way...:Childhood memories in Kent

Heeding the foreman's advise the boys turned and ran back past their picnic and under the flightpath of...

Battle of Britain: As Seen by a Child

We ran or I was run.My feet hardly touched the ground.that hand pulled me through the air,down the...

From Mwava to Blackshaw Moor

Before Britain declared war, when my dad was 6 and living in the village of Mwava in Poland... Straight...

Doodlebugs and Parachutes

My father who was in the Royal Marines was posted to the Admiralty in London to guard Sir Winston Churchill...

Evacuation -Ruth Preston

So the neighbour then asked if she could come with her so then Ruth and the neighbours little girl were...

Air Raid Shelter

We lived in this house in Melling and next to it was the Dunlop Factory, where people worked making things...

School Examinations and Doodlebugs in Ilford

Our headmistress was a doughty Scot and decided that we really had to sit at desks in the school hall to...

I was an evacuee: London to Wallingford

During the time I was in London, I was rushed through the streets of Stepney to get a train to the Bank...

Present From America

The dispatch to Angel Road School came from The Mayor, Citizens and Children of Boston, Massachusetts and...

School Memories

The German bombing raids over Liverpool and the Wirral took place during my school days at West Kirby High...

Battle of Britain Sunday

On that day waves of German planes came over from Dover and the Kent coast and I remember standing in the...

American Forces

American Forces...

Barbed Wire and Cakes, Summerfield Park

Summerfield Park was about 300 yards from home and, in those different days, I was allowed to go with my...

Evacuation

The people living next door who were welsh suggested my mum and my brother and I go down to wales and stop...

Evacuation: From Walthamstow to Kettering

I was a pupil at Walthamstow High School for girls when the war started, and at the end of August 1939,when...

Molotov Breadbasket in Southwick, West Sussex

Seconds later, looking westwards, the planes gained height, and we saw a stick of bombs leave one aircraft,...

Evacuation - Olga's Story

My mother, Olga Atkinson, as she was then, lived in Gateshead with her parents Harry and Nellie, older...