South West Wales

John Shaw's Reminiscences: Dunkirk and D-Day

The first vehicles to arrive were civil defence vans like Lance Corporal Jones’ butcher's van...

The Swansea Blitz - Part 1

The Caretaker of Lloyds Bank, Wind Street, called us to help him get the incendiaries off the partly flat...

Some Wartime Memories of the Railways and RAF

In 1991 I accompanied George on a trip across Australia from Perth to Sidney in the Gipsy Moth to attend...

The Swansea Blitz - Part 2

The pumps were working like mad to pump the water up-hill through a narrow passage running alongside...

Malnutrition Milk

It was not, as might be imagined, more and better food, but a disgusting concoction known as...

Gwen, Ken and the Royal Navy

One evening, which I will never forget, was when Nanna Slee and Granpa Charlie had the six o'clock news...

Bedford During the War

Servicemen and their girlfriends were going into the Corn Exchange, jeeps and cars were drawing up and we...

That Evening Full Moon - February 1941

These aeroplanes had tracks from Loughor River, over Loughor, Kingsbridge and Waunarlwydd with Cocket to...

The Sinking of HMS Hood

The years passed and we returned to our London home, I was unable to recall the name of Melvyn Davies and I...

Black Grass: Childhood Memories of RAF St Athan

In 1940 when I was two years old, we were living in Married Quarters at RAF ST. Athen in South Wales....

Part 6 change for Cardiff

All doubts about who they were disappeared as they moved towards door but before they could reach it, the...

Stan Martin's WW2 story

We were all in the water now but hanging on to what was left of the boat, and being swept along by...

Memories of WW2

All the Colonel asked me was "which unit were you with before you were commissioned?". When I told...

War Memoir: Evacuated to Kent and Wales

During the school holidays, which we were not allowed to spend in London, I was staying with Joan and Duggy...

Being Evacuated: From Acton to Glamorgan

A short ride and we were at Acton Main Line railway station, where our parents and teachers shepherded us...

Jim Humphreys- Part 1 of 2

The enemy realised the importance of this searchlight and tried to bomb it on many occasions but were...

Some Memories of Schooldays in Swansea during WW2

I was fortunate enough to pass the Scholarship, which I sat in about June, 1939 and I was then able to...

The Swansea Blitz - Part 3

Swansea was faced with a terrific ordeal on these three I consecutive nights in the heavy enemy attacks...

Enid's RAF Memories

Later my friend Gwyn and I decided to volunteer to go to RAF Colerne, near Bath, in Wiltshire... I went...

Nursing in the war

Six weeks later we left King George V Dock in Glasgow on the troop ship AWATEA - incidentally when this...

World War II Changed My Life ,as it did many others, in so many ways, some good, some bad

When Mrs. Ambrose decided to move to be with her daughter, Mrs. Morgan's daughter, Nellie Thomas,...

The Twins - Our Life As Evacuees

So for whatever reason we were sent to Chichester where we joined what appeared to be children from a...

'Kids at War' - A Short Story by an Evacuee

'My dear' he said, 'Nobody can take all four of you'. Once again I stated that we should all stay together and it was some time before I would accept the fact...

I will lift my eyes up unto the hills . . .

We eventually arrived in a small village, Llanwrda in South Wales, and from the village square the evacuees...

MY WAR IN THE WRNS (Training & First Postings)

Plotting & Ops Officer - A4146004 HMS Eaglet, Liverpoool; HMS Phrosopine, Orkney; HMS Heron I.O.W. over...

William's Story

My uncle Albert had been a Boy Sailor, he had gone to sea when he was fourteen and seen action in the...