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Raymond Wright — Planes of D-Day in Maidstone

The Germans came across in large groups sometimes, that was true, but that day it was like every aeroplane...

A Child's Short Memory in WW2

When World War 2 started they had to open a hospital, which would treat only scabies because that many...

Califronia Syrup of Figs

So how come there was never, ever a shortage of California Syrup of Figs????? It must have come from...

Doodlebugs over Hayes

And I braved the doodlebugs with Mummy working in a day nursery....

Evacuation - Dark Weekend

Then, in that same World War, on a summer's day, as well we'd be herded from the ghetto, on a dark...

Evacuees

In September we children wandered down to the school hall to see the, mostly parentless, evacuees arrive...

Milk a Plenty

On or about the 10th May 1941, a milk train was de-railed by a bomb on the railway which ran alongside...

Near Miss

He often saw aircraft flying overhead, both German and British... The Spitfire shot the Messerschmitt down...

Sleeping under the stairs

My mother looked after my sister Patricia, my brother David and me during the long nights of the war as...

Italian prisoners-of-war and schooldays

I went to school in Lelant. Sometimes, on the way to school, the sirens would go off to warn us that the...

A child’s eye view of Dunkirk

As a child, I remember my grandmother telling me that one day Falmouth bay was suddenly full of boats...

Memories of Shelters

We were in Kingston On Thames, it was not evacuated or a reception place so we weren't sent away......

My First Party

At Christmas we did get a little big extra as my dad kept chickens, we got toys by my father passing the...

A Cent for Canadian Good Luck

A Canadian gave me a cent coin because I reminded him of his daughter who had sent one as a good luck...

Dunkirk

Special Duties For PC Collis

Bert Collis - Special Duties For PC Collis I remember many special duties for my father, PC Collis, the...

Wartime Memories Pt5

We had lots of ‘Aunties’ and ‘Uncles’ who were in the RAF. We liked Aunty Barbara...

VJ Day - An Evacuee's Story

My mother, brother and I were "war guests" from Croydon in Toronto from 1940 to 1945 - our father...

The Blast of a Doodlebug

Just as I arrived Dad said ‘There's a doodlebug coming’... Dad told me that it was the...

Molly's War

I was in the land army. I enjoyed my life in the land army....

Evacuated to Ireland

My mother decided to take me, Fred and Daphne to stay with her sister in Southern Ireland, where we would...

Nancy Holton — World War 2 memories

Born on 21st sep 1930, had one brother younger than me, as I remember my father was too old for the army,...

Farm worker with horses

There were Wellington bombers came down in the field shot down by the Germans and one day one landed on a...

La Chaumiere School returns to Guernsey after the Occupation

In 1943, the Salesian Superiors felt that with Moseley Hall running successfully that they could use Father...

A.T.S.

Then I was sent to Speke in Liverpool... When we got the site clean we were moved to Heyton in Liverpool...

Davolls @ War

My Grandfather lived to the ripe old age of 104. He joined the British Army at the outbreak of the 1st...