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Royal Marine Retired to Brighton

My parents moved my elder brother, David, three years my senior and I to Brighton, as they leased a...

Bombs in South London, Looters and the Evacuee from Hell by Peter Harman

The evacuee from hell I stayed in Westfield on the South Coast until France fell and then Burry Port in...

Bombs in South London, Looters and the Evacuee from Hell by Peter Harman

The evacuee from hell I stayed in Westfield on the South Coast until France fell and then Burry Port in...

Saturday 7th September 1940

The council had cut trenches across all the parks to stop German gliders from landing and in each of the...

Memories of Ashby de la Zouch

Magpies are easy birds to tame and it was just before we left Ashby in 1944 and we decided to let them...

An Evacuee's Experience

At Christmas, I was able to go home to London to my Gran's for two or three days... I was an evacuee...

Schoolgirl in WW 2

I was eight years old when WW2 started , living in Richmond Hill Langley; next to my best friend Margaret...

Evacuation: From South London to Worthing

I remember being on West Norwood, London SE, railway station, with my two brothers, one older one younger,...

D-Day the Build Up Through the Eyes of a 14 Year Old Boy: In Weymouth and Portland

Weymouth and Portland were the main ports of embarkation for landing on the beach known as Omaha... The...

An Evacuee

I was instructed to call them Aunty Bron, Uncle Lou and Grandad... I often think Aunty Bron and Uncle Lou...

The War Years in Willington

We arrived in London on the night of September 2nd to a total blackout and had to make our way to...

Christmas in wartime

The pie, made from Anglo-American cooperation, was to be Christmas Eve supper for the entire family. Mum,...

My Childhood during World War 2: In Bolton, Lancashire

We had lots of fun pretending to catch spies and German pilots out of aeroplanes shot down. We queued for...

Childhood Birmingham

You were either in the forces or working in the armaments in factories, or the Land Army or Nursing. My...

My First Day of World War 2

Anyway, suddenly my dad called me in and Uncle Harry leapt out of the frond door running away down the...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 5 - evacuated to Wimborne

I don't remember much about the journey except that the trains, buses and trams had all their windows...

A Wartime Childhood in Southampton

As this aunt lived in central Poole very near to the gasworks, and bombs were soon dropped in this...

Memories of Wartime Evacuees - Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire

Valerie Parry (Lintern) & John Parry

Both John and Valerie remember - Dried egg which was delicious could make fantastic omelletes with chopped...

The Belfast Blitz

The Luftwaffe's navigation was not what anyone expected for instead of hitting the centre of Belfast...

Going to live in Windermere

I screamed and my father jumped out of bed and tried to get out of the front door, but it was jammed...

The Blitz - My Recollections.

It's 1943 and I'm 8yrs. old,not very old but old enough to stand at night in our garden, nervously...

Prelude and "The Day War Broke Out"

They were issued and fitted in a large room to the rear of the “Cycles and Wireless” shop in...

Barbara Jean Parker, Bad Evacuation Memory

My mum told me to keep hold of my 4 year old half brother's hand and not to part with him and...

The Last Plane to be Lost from Horham Air Base

When the Americans came to Horham they found our small village pub in the neighbouring village of...

Farm life 1940/41

We were living in Hull in 1940 and my grandparents had promised to look after my mother, my brother Ted and...