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Childhood Memories of Swindon, Wallingford and London during War

Uncle Robert was in the Navy on a cruiser and Uncle Len was a wireless operator with 12 Squadron....

Daddy where are you?

I was the youngest of four children each of us hoping for some small personal message from our hero. He...

Childrens evacuation: Wandsworth to Reading

Most of the pupils of Eltringham St. Elementary School were shepherded along to Wandsworth Town railway...

"Rookies" in the ATS pay corp

About 20 ATS pay office clerks; two cooks and two orderlies lived there, three or four to a room, plus the...

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Evacuee from Bermondsey

I do know that shortly after George went into the army and despite being a Londoner he enlisted in the...

War on a Wednesday afternoon

On that Wednesday afternoon I took my seven year old brother to the Central Cinema in Friar Street to see...

The Bombing Starts 1940 - Diana Harding nee Major.

My mother and young brother decided they would brave it out in London, in The Dock Area hoping that nothing...

A Child's War

As the youngest child in a family of four children I watched and listened to family arguments. We also kept...

The Golds Move to Reading

38 Norfolk Road Oxford Road Reading Berks circa early 1940 Dear Lily and Ben, I know you will surprised to...

Through a Teenager's Eyes

I married the day after War was declared to a Royal Horse Guard at Clewer Church Windsor I had wanted to...

My War Memories, Battersea

My eldest brother, who was a pupil at Battersea Grammar School was sent to Worthing. When my eldest brother...

RAPC Readingicon for Story with photo

The area was vital and raiders and flying bombs were around, and on one occasion a lone raider made our...

Life in Reading During the War

Air sirens often used to go at night — you could see the glow in sky after London had been bombed....

A Factory Girl

Every nationality - American, Canadian, Polish, Australian, New Zealand, Free French could be met at the...

A Land Army Girl's Life in Buckhold

Buckhold was surround by American forces in Pangbourne, Caversham, Aldermast and Greenham Common....

Evacuated to Henley on Thames

I was evacuated on 1/9/1939 to Henley on Thames but when we got there they were no billets for us due to...

From London to the Royal Ordnance Depot

I started at the Royal Ordnance Depot in 1940, shortly after the Blitz....

Three Times an Evacuee

On sunday morning the third of september 1939,i was evacuated along with my two younger brothers to great...

War-time Memories, Reading

My sister and I slept in a bunk bed in the pantry with my brother on a small bed by the sink....

Bombs Away!

It could have been no more than a couple of hundred feet high and as I looked, momentarily frozen into...

Shrapnel to Gum.

I remember finding shrapnel in the back garden one morning and standing at the front door one evening with...

A Bomb falls on Reading

In Feb 1943 a lone plane offloaded its bombs on to Broad Street in Reading, destroying Grassteads Store,...

Lost for Two Years

We met at School and I can remember going from Southfields Station to Woking. There are a couple of areas...

Little Boy From Londonicon for Story with photo

During the evacuation of children from London, my mother in law, who lived in New Zealand Cottages,...

VE Day: In Tilehurst, Berkshire

There is a bonfire on the green, Vera Lynn is singing on the gramophone which is perched on somebody's...

Children's War

As a nine-year old boy at Ellington School, Maidenhead, I remember that, in 1940, we used to go to St....

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