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Memories of WW2 by Majorie Pascoe Pt I

It was explained to me that my father had been born in Penryn and had been taken to London when a baby...

World War II Experiences

In the meantime my brother remained very unhappy — it was so difficult for him — we had our...

The von Thadden Family in Pomerania (part six)

As soon as we had left and all the officers and soldiers had gone as well with their retinue of women,...

Working for my father, Mr. Gazeley, a farmer in Westoning during wartime. Post-war marriage to an Italian ex-POW.

There were a number of Italian P.O.W.s maintaining the railways adjacent to our land. I was warned by the...

Childhood Anecdotes of World War II

Here's a little prayer that our Roy made up: 'God bless Daddy and me Mammy and bring Daddy safely...

I came home for the Selkirk Common Riding

While I was at Henlow, the RAF station, where incidentally, I met some of the Selkirk chaps who were...

Evacuated

As we were on the edge of the town this was Upney, a station for the District Line, part of the London...

Fareham area memories Part 1

My step-father, who was at that time stationed in Fort Wallington, built a machine gun fortified concrete...

Evacuated - Both Good and Bad

As we were on the edge of the town this was Upney, a station for the District Line, part of the London...

World War Memories of an Ulster Childhood

Lower Lough Erne in county Fermanagh was the RAF Coastal Command base for Sunderland and Catalina flying...

W.W.II As a Small Boy PART1

It was a narrow twisty road that we walked every Saturday for mum and Mr Agate to take us shopping at...

Front Row Seat. War as seen by a schoolboy in Kent

Now from France the German Air Force could easily fly over England, first attacking British airfields and...

My War Part I

What Leonard and I, and probably the rest of children couldn't understand was “Why were all these...

Life in Rural Dorset: Evacuation from the Tyneham Area

When Dad got home next morning from his night shift, Mum told him that there was a bomb outside but Dad...

Telling My Granddaughter about My War Memories

I lived in a small house in Kynaston Avenue, Thornton Heath which is about ten miles from the centre of...

What’s a War, Dad?

The incident was soon forgotten, but a short time later I was interested when my Dad & Mum made a large...

Memories of WWll.

After potato harvesting in the autumn we particularly enjoyed the great bonfire of dried potato haulm and...

Violet Josephine Coombs

If we couldn't use my brother George's car we would sometimes catch a bus as far as Roborough...

Wartime childhood memories - Part 1

One night ‘The New Inn’ at Hayes took a direct hit and the publican, Fred Mallows, was...

LIFE STORY of IRMGARD RUTH BAHR (NEE WEBER) Part 2

Juttas husband phoned because the Russians were marching towards Danzig, she should pack as much as she...

A Child's War, Part 6

One day out of the blue he turned up at Gran's house, accompanied by a fellow male officer and a...

"A WARTIME CHILDHOOD IN WORCESTERSHIRE"

I recall that we had a very good Village Hall at Broadway called the Lifford Hall. The Street was very...

Memoirs of an Evacuee - Part 2

In one car there was mum and baby Ted, sister Gwen and brother Less, in the other car, brother Bill,...

Six years without dad

The fighting, the aftermath of the bombing raids - the King nd Queen amid the devastation and rubble...

School Boy Memories. Part 2.

The third was in the early summer of 1944 at the end of June e4arly July and Dad was back from his...

War memories

We both ‘as one’ dived into Mr Harper's fir hedge as the aircraft made a turn and came...