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Indian Troops in Scotland

Exotic strangers As a child during the war, we were sheltered from the horrors of the blitz in the coastal...

Wartime Experiences at the BBC

My husband, Derek Prentice, was a news reader for the BBC World Service during the Second World War. From...

Uncle Glenn

I was only a baby at the start of the war, so I have no personal memories of my uncle Glenn, though...

I Thought There Was a Draught

I was in Show Business during the War and was part of a troupe playing the Hippodrome, Coventry.This...

Extract From Josie Vernon's Autobiography

Dad killed her and Mum plucked and drew her, as she normally did with the Christmas birds, cooked her to a...

My Story of War Time in Cleland, Lanarkshire and My Time in the RAF

Etta my sister was a nurse in Robroyston Hospital, near Bishopbriggs on the Eastern outskirts of Glasgow...

The War Years

Just after the evacuation of Dunkirk I was walking down Arkwright Street Nottingham with my mother when she...

Peggy's Wartime Memoriors

One of our friends from Dumfries, Tom, was now in the RAF and stationed nearby so when my godfather's...

Dorothy Taylor-How I saw the Second World War Part 3

There were dances held in Saltaire in a room under Salt's library, at the Lakeen in Shipley and also...

War time in India with ENSA

Soon our company, including Anne, was ready for our next big wartime adventure, the thrilling prospect of...

At Sea after a Wartime Wedding

After a few weeks of these duties at Mildenhall we were all moved to do further guard duties at an internee...

Effie's War in Lincolnshire - Part 2

We had two sulphuric-acid batteries that were interchanged and charged at Proctors, who had a house, shop...

64th (7th London) Field Regiment Royal Artillery 12

The following day I went to Tripoli and visited the church there and was able to sign the visitors book on...

Memories of WW2 through the Eyes of an 8-14 Year Old (Part 2)

When my cousin from Luton came to stay with my aunt we met her at London Road train station and we had...

Stewarton in Wartime

While on this subject, this is an opportune moment to recall that three other streets were named after...

Nonstops Troop Show

First I went to an Army Record Office but did not care for being in an inside job and as jobs were...

My Wartime Memories of Bedford as a Schoolboy Part 4 - The 'Home Front' and the evacuation of the BBC Symphony Orchestra to Bedf

My Wartime Memories of Bedford as a Schoolboy Part 4 - The 'Home Front' and the evacuation of the...

A Wartime Childhood.

At a later stage in the war, I was in my Sunday school class and we were told that if a German...

War Declared part two.

In the meantime the committee, as behooved a good governing body, tried to consider every possibility of...

One Schoolboy's War Against Hitler!

Each London Borough had its own teams of ARP Control points who monitored the fall of bombs and the...

The Penguin Concert Party

Bert King wrote, in the late 1940s It was in January 1940 that Lilian suggested that we might form a...

The Sea in My Veins (Part 1 of 3)

My father had already transferred from the Merchant Navy to the Royal Naval Reserve. In 1942 I was one of a...

Surveyor and Saxaphone Player in the First Survey Regiment, Royal Artillery

We were stationed in Yorkshire for quite some time, training after Dunkirk; there were various ATS units,...

Eileen Couch's Story -Part 2

Voluntary Organisations then in 1941 Harold Morris started the Army Cadet Corp in Chepstow. Harold Morris...

Lili Marlene, the ‘D-Day Dodgers’ and Lady Nancy Astor

Lili Marlene, the ‘D-Day Dodgers’ and Lady Nancy Astor Introduction. Sometimes when I see these...

16th Crosby St Andrews Scout Pipe Band (1939-1959)

In late 1945, the Crosby Caledonian Society was founded - Sam Adie being a founder member and honorary...