Cornwall

Drama on the High Seas

For 22 days the destroyer had towed the torpedoed oil tanker the Regent Lion across 700 miles of Atlantic...

My Wartime Memories, Cornwall

I remained good friends with the other two girls who started up the station and in spite of spending 25...

Air Raids in Falmouth

My family consisted of my father Jack, my mother Hilda, my brother Roy, and my sisters, Maud, Evelyn and...

Memories of the RAF and Air Defence of Great Britain by Margaret Diplock (nee McCarthy)

Memories of the RAF and Air Defence of Great Britain by Margaret Diplock. I was interviewed at Roose...

BEF/Dunkirk

When he signed up he was promised a posting to the Middlesex or one of the Kentish regiments, when he...

Dads Army, on the Cornish Beaches

In St Austell at the time there were two great camps of American Troops they were based at Pentewan with 50...

Dennis' Wartime Recollections as an Evacuee

Darwin has rugged terrain like Exmoor in Devon, but Dennis really enjoyed these weekly walks with his...

Evacuation to Pentewan

I arrived in Pentewan in October 1940 when I was 8 years old, with my mother, brother Ron(11) and sister...

People's War - A Schoolboy's Perspective

Much has been written about the contribution made by members of the civilian population throughout the...

My Experience as an Evacuee, Moving from London to Cornwall by Jim Spaulding

I was born in Thornton Heath, London, in 1936 and my younger sister, Jean, was born in 1938....

I remember D Day

I was given rides round the town in a Jeep and, most amazingly, large tins of tinned fruit... Some vehicles...

My V.E.Night

At Air Transport Command Harrow, for a station; he suggested St. Mawgan Cornwall a joint USAF and RAF...

Special Constable No.16

The first time he made use of this novel idea was early in the morning when the siren sounded, and Father...

Life in a Cornish Pub

Obviously life was changed by the war, Perranporth Aerodrome was nearby and Many different nationalities...

Helston during WW2

I lived in Helston, west Cornwall, the home of the Flora, or Floral Dance. As I recall, the weekly...

A Wartime Childhood: Evacuated to Cornwall

In that time my Mum and sister came down from London to work, so my Mum could be near me. I wasn't...

Ron Gardner at Pentewan

Now here I was still with the thump of the bombs, the rattle of machine guns and the crump of the the...

Bombs Away 1940 and D-Day 1944

And there it was, a Heinkel bomber, German markings clearly visible, flying in from the north towards...

In Search of a Lost Father

I was heartbroken when my daddy had to go back to Canada, at the time I was very young, but still had...

Life as a Teacher During WW2 Part 1

It was winter time and I was told to report for duty at St Ewe village school. The village school was...

When We Were 'Invaded'

As a child livng in Bodmin, we were brought up on a diet of propaganda via such illustrated magazines as...

Weeding Carrots

My sister and I were evacuated from London with our school in 1939 and were sent first to Brentwood, Essex,...

Life With an Evacuee and Others

Pat and her sister, Irene, has been billeted with another person in Gunnislake but they weren't very...

'Eggs and Bacon' in Padstow

Eventually the eggs & bacon would be sold back to the hotel — so the food went a full circle....

My Story at Windy Park

Home was a lovely bungalow high above the bay of St Ives, I did not appreciate its location until 20 years...

A Special Week in the War.

Eventually he was sent to serve in a ship called 'The Belfort' located off FOWEY in Cornwall, but...