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Memories of a former Alien (Part two)

My aunt was horrified at my coldbloodedness and calm as I enjoyed reading the adventure stories of...

EVACUEE - CHELMSFORD AND GREAT BADDOW - Part Two

I think she required the billeting-officer to find Sidney and me new billets and to find her a couple of...

The End of the War - VE Day

My sister Maureen ran up a path and hid behind the privet hedge, hoping the dogs would miss her, they...

Peggy's War

The Baptist chapel the family attended was destroyed in the Blitz, so when Peggy chose to be confirmed she...

A child's war

Foreign fruits like bananas, oranges and peaches were the stuff of dreams; all I knew of bananas was the...

Those Frightening Years parts 1 and 2

The War Office notified her later that HMS Whirlwind was on the coast of England after doing her stint in...

Wartime Recollections

The Moss Family

My Batt Grandparents lived across the Hornchurch aerodrome in Rainham, they lived in a rented bungalow in...

U.S. Navy at Plymouth, Devon by Ken Roberts - Part One

The US Navy's 97th Construction Battalion, or Sea Bees for short, took over Shapter's Field at...

Deerhurst Re-visited or My sister and the Donkey

Emily had bought a cottage in the village of Deerhurst and was planning to move in a couple of months or...

EVACUEE - 1

At long last, I and classmate Harold Fuller, of 39 Marshall Road, with a slightly younger boy, were taken...

June Traynor

The block of Army flats I lived in rocked on the night they blew up the new St. John's Wood Underground...

My Life at War

We went to stay with my elder brother Pyotr, who lived at Mamontovka Station, not far from Moscow. When we...

Evacuation from Plymouth to Bodmin to Teignmouth

I still went to school in Bodmin on the bus, and when my brothers went off to school at Buckfastleigh, back...

Colin's Story

After a brief stay with relatives in London we packed up and moved to Bedgbury to live with my Grandparents...

Neil Waddas

The ferry pilots arrived, I forget in which type of aircraft on this occasion but it definitely would have...

A childhood, 1939 - 1945

Some time in 1940 dad was posted to the Firth-of-Forth in Scotland to take part in the conversion of...

Marie's Memories of WW2

She had come from London and was a friend of Mr Simms sisters and wanted to get away from the bombing. Mr...

Loving Shepherd Of Thy Sheep.

He told us that the Reverend Richard Seymour, his sister, uncle and son had all passed away and showed us...

After the War 1946-1958

I made an appeal after two years. to be released from the WRNS and become a visiting student at The Wesley...

Memories of an evacuee.

My good friend John Cummings lived with his younger brother David, Mum Vi and Dad Fred at the Changa...

Flashbacks to a Wartime Childhood.

We had to leave Cheltenham and return to Derby to live with my grandmother in the house I was born in at...

Memories of an eight year old

My dad, an ARP officer and special constable, always had to report for duty to the ARP centre in the town...

Peterborough Adult Learning Service and East Community Centre VE Day Event - Memories Book Chapter 1

The memories of Daphne Hulme I was born in Holbeach and lived there during the war, one day my sisters and...

What Grandma Remembers (part one)

My Life in the Somerset Village of Stoke St Gregory - Part II

Lennie was still late for work, there was plenty of chat but little work done before lunch time, the cows...