The war proper seemed to start in early April with the German invasion of Denmark and Norway which began on...
Polished rosewood panelling, thick royal blue carpets, framed copies of their client's advertisements...
They lived in South Norwood, Surrey an area which was under the flight path of German aircraft on the way...
Although Eddie had to get to Kings Cross he came with Dora and me to see us onto our train back to...
They needed land girls for hoeing, so working away in the field, alongside a vicar who was a guest at the...
The day and night air raids of the ‘Blitz’ began about June 1940 the sirens were sounding all...
It is headed, “Army Cadets in Wonder Camp, Tommy Atkins Junior” and starts “Cheery...
Three weeks before the outbreak of the war my father, who was in the Territorial Army, was posted to...
She guided Bobby and I onto the first small landing, it hurt our feet because there was parts of the room...
Then we had to go to Loughton in Essex to stay with Aunty Bertha and Uncle Frank until Dad found a house...
An area of allotments at the corner of Psalter Lane and Brincliffe Gardens were taken over and became a...
One Sunday in the park Vera met Ivan, a man from Carpathian Ukraine. After living for a time on a farm in...
This was not only for our good, but it was the best for them also as German ‘sleepers’ could...
Suddenly Mum snapped, “You can read that later, how about filling the copper with water for me”...
The sound of machine guns, the sight of massed vapour trails in the sky of bombers en route for London,...
Throughout the war, ‘Pig Bins’ and ‘Bone Bins’ were attached to lamp posts at...
Tughall would join with Newton then Christon Bank and everyone would join all the way to Alnwick....
Mum, my young brother and I lived on a corner opposite Littlehampton railway station, with Hollands...
Most of my memories as a young boy are about the war, carrying a gas mask around in a small square...
As this man's father was the rector of Pillaton in Cornwall, mother went as housekeeper and I went as...
At the office, large —scale maps of Oxfordshire were in my charge and on them was marked the route of...
On arriving in Mombassa, we were loaded onto barges and taken down several waterways, and then by road,...
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