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The Misery of Evacuation

I was evacuated from Gorton, Manchester, on the 3rd September 1939 shortly after Neville Chamberlain...

The Blackberry Field Bomber in Wansworth

Slowly flying our way was a low flying aircraft that I recognized as being of German origin... My father...

Memories of the Second World War

A friend and I were spending a holiday at Sandown, the Isle of Wight. A friend and I slept in the Town...

Sunderland Memories by Sadie Broadley

There were no shelters nearby, so my Dad and I stood in a shop doorway in Hylton Road and we saw the...

A School Boy's Memories of WWII

There was a cacophony of constant anti-aircraft fire, exploding bombs, the clunk, clunk of falling shrapnel...

The Americans in Broadstone and D-Day

The Americans arrived in Broadstone, Dorset, the village where I was born and grew up in 1943. One film I...

My Childhood Experience Near the End of the War

I was 14 months old when my dad was killed in action abroad, and I went to live with my grandma and...

A Happy Child's War

I recall standing with my brother Ben along with the rest of our school and two of our teachers in the...

Food conservation for the war effort

Dad pioneered methods of freeze- drying and canning food... I remember family meals consisting of the...

Two Schools and Three Moves in 18 Months

When dad got home from work, the house was bombed, the Anderson shelter empty, and no-one to tell him where...

Sept 3rd 1939

All of a sudden the sirens started wailing and we all knew that Britain would shortly be at war with...

Bombed Out — a childhood memory

My earliest memory was waking up lying next to my eldest brother, Stan in a bed full of broken glass,...

Mary Wickham's Story

I had a brother who flew as an observer in the RAF, he trained in S. Africa. I worked in Barclays Bank,...

Evacuated From England to America

In July 1940 when it looked as if Hitler would invade England, Yale University invited 125 children aged...

1939-1945

In 1941 i went to Stockwell Training college for 2 years teacher training. the actual college was in...

A happy evacuee

On the 1st September 1939 I was evacuated with my sister Eileen, and two cousins, to a village called Hook...

Evacuation 1940-1945

Children's medical problems were; “chilblains” thigh sores from short trousers and...

A boy says goodbye to his father

My father was a baker by trade, and anyway … he went to the Second World War along with 2 of his...

My Lovely War

Then I had to be transferred to Stafford, to the Ramsgate School... I had the meanest foster parents, no...

Evacuation

To return now to the question about the length of time of my evacuation — I said I was evacuated for...

LOST IN AN AIR RAID

At some time when we were down there, the family went to Cardiff for the day and while my mother looked...

Childhood in Southampton

The raid we had witnessed was apparently one of the Germans’ trials of their fire bombs. They always...

Snapshots from the AFS and ��ѿ��ý Guard

When war broke out I was 25, and in a reserved occupation as an apprentice at a factory in Darlaston, which...

Evacuated to Butlins

We left the West Thurrock School by bus and went to Tilbury to catch the ship ‘The Eagle’ to go...

A small child's memories

I was born on May 21st 1939, in a cottage down a lane off the A38 at Claymills, Burton on Trent, on...

When Mum rescued me from Retford

My great aunt owned a number of properties in Birmingham and shortly before war broke out we moved to one...