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My Memories of the War Part One

It was when this air battle was won that the bombing began, and Liverpool and Birkenhead became Prime...

memories of evacuation part two

We even persuaded Sister Augustine, one of the Irish nuns to join in, much to the amusement of everyone...

Polesworth during the War Years

A nearby searchlight was stationed at Alvecote and the beam from that going up into the sky seemed to light...

My Childhood - a Chapter for my Grandchildren

There were a few attacks on Luton where the Vauxhall car factory produced vehicles for the war effort, so...

Wyre Forest evacuation, V1s, VE Day

The Germans didn't know where the V1s or the V2s were going, as long as they hit London that's all...

The War in A Cotswold Village

The airfield personnel together with the nearby Americans were very interesting additions to the local...

The von Thadden Family in Pomerania (part five)

The Russian soldiers who had been left to guard the village had spent the first night at the house of the...

Geoff Stanfield's War

Dad pulled back the debris-covered bedclothes and went to bed, remarking that Mr Hitler was not going to...

Me and the War in Banstead (Part Two)

Perran at War. (PART 3).

Horace Drew also used to operate a "country round" but he had a horse and wagon: when parked...

A CHILDREN'S WAR

My Mother had died in 1938 and my Dad decided to evacuate me to Kent to live with my married sister,...

My war as a teenager - Chapter 1

I think it really hit home to me when I was out in the town one day and I met one of...

Betty Martin’s Story - Part 2 of 3

My father made arrangements for my sister and me to become pupils at the fee-paying Public Day School Trust...

Wartime Childhood in Shrewsbury, Shropshire

One wartime sound we heard frequently was guns firing when the King's Shropshire Light Infantry were...

Woodleigh School

My parents were frantically househunting and after a fortnight, we moved again to Firby Hall, an ancient...

War Time Memories

It was an old wind-up gramophone with a few 78 rpm records- songs from Walt Disney films, one or two of...

From Outbreak to VE

The night it started I had gone with Mum and Dad down town on the bus, as they wanted to show me...

A Child's War, Part 3

CHAPTER 3 - Evacuation - Southport Here We Come Dad begged my mother to take us to safety before he...

Wartime Memories

On Remembrance Sunday the local British Legion, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard, ARP and Red Cross would assemble at Star Corner...

The Lost Years - Chapter 1 (2)

There was one cinema in Cotton, the ‘Tivoli’, in Gold Street was the ‘Majestic’, on...

A Very Close Call

By Ronald Tee of the 56th Reconnaissance Regiment, 78th "Battleaxe" Division of the British 1st,,...

A boy's eye view of WW2 (Part 5)

Part 5 Return to Ewell An influx of young fit American Soldiers and Air Force Personnel gradually entered...

High School to Art School Part One

It was more of a precaution, because German bombers having raided Hull would fly up the coast and drop any...

WORLD WAR II AND ME

School continued in fits and starts, sometimes closing for periods when the bombing was bad, but we all...

Evacuation

Among our group were Bill and Pete Bukcley, Bill Holmes, Mike McMullan, Ken and Eric Page, Donald Mosses,...

Re: My early Memories of World War Two

Till we were about nine or ten years old, I remember writing letters to SANTA, and putting them up the...