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Grandad's Wartime Memories 1939-1945

I had to do a lot of jobs around the house to help Grandma - I had to draw water from the...

An Evacuee's Story Chapter II

In Alnwick we were supposed to get out of our lodgings and take the fresh air by going to church as part...

Evacuation from Leeds. An excerpt from "Thirties Child", the memoirs of Walter Bradbourne

I finished up towards the rear of the bus and was lucky to get a window seat, so I had a good...

Memories of being evacuated to an Archbishop's Palace

At the start of the war my parents, concerned that Swansea with its docks and steelworks would be a prime...

Schooldays in Suffolk and evacuation

Were we too old — our sixth formers were 17 to 18 and some about to sit the Higher School Certificate...

corrections

Naval Alder's permanent placement back to England would mean Marjorie would have to repack her baggage...

memories of evacuation part one

Having been made welcome by one of the nuns we were led by another up what to me was an endless staircase...

Memories of being evacuated to an Archbishop's palace

At the start of the war my parents, concerned that Swansea with its docks and steelworks would be a prime...

My Memories

Many of us were put on the special train and were met at East Croydon station by our parents and spent that...

Interlude - At a military hospital

I had been very ill, a patient in Leys School Annex, an extension of Addenbrookes in Cambridge, when...

My War My Memory

Myself, brothers John 9, Stan 11 and Ted 13 who was to be my father for the next two years. But dad...

Amsterdam - Part 2

Once in a while, weather permitted, we walked to the centre of Amsterdam where it was now very quiet, no...

My Wartime Life as an Army child - part two - to South Africa

I was really worried that my mum and little sister would fall in the water. This didn't go down too...

Memoirs of an Evacuee -Part 4

The lead up to Christmas was quite exiting, aunt Phylis, aunt Dora, brother Eric and I enjoyed making up...

an evacuees memories part one

Having been made welcome by one of the nuns we were led by another up what to me was an endless staircase...

Birmingham in the War - From My Angle

My mother had queued for hours at Lewis's sale to buy me a tennis racquet but couldn't afford a...

Schoolboy's Memories of World War 2

Birkenhead.As my father was likely to be in Birkenhead for some monthe my parents decided to set up home...

Mary Agrafiotou in Thessaloniki

The Greek army stopped the Germans for a week on the Eastern side of the country and then the Germans broke...

Evacuation

Sometimes Bramham Moor Hunt came riding through the fields, and Margaret had to open the big iron gates...

You Could See The Stars (Part One)

My sister and I were included in a group of 300 children who were taken out of Bradford to a school at...

Some wartime recollections of a Worsley Road schoolboy

He retired whilst I was in the school and his place was taken by Jim Hardy and he badgered me to take...

Toni's War

After 5 days the Germans decided to bomb Rotterdam just to show their strength and make Holland capitulate....

My War Interests

The first thing Dad had to do was dig up part of their back lawn, then he planted potatoes, I heard him...

Child experiences of war from Antwerp to London. Part 2

Father and Uncle Charles had not yet been given permission to leave London and Aunty Clothilde would not...

Olive Mary Moir's Evacuee Days, 1939 to 1943.

My mother was a WRVS volunteer, an elder brother was in the RAMC, an elder sister served in the National...

Memories of WW2

I also saw bomb damage to the Midland Station and houses in Derby Lane and Regent Street and clearly...