My father Wystan Toyne was a solicitor in Birchington, Kent and in 1939 decided that the war was too close...
Because my grandparents had a Morris car I was relatively familiar with the countryside to the south and...
We stayed in Scotland for 3 years until Dad's ship was sent to Belfast where we once again joined him....
My two sisters were billeted with a farmer and his wife whose house was about half a mile inland from a...
They were Mr. & Mrs. Parsons and I well remember their beautiful thatched cottage. They also arranged a...
I'm sure, George Thomas, Wilf Riding, “Dickie” Hartles, “Tich Jones,” Eric...
A line of bombs was dropped right across the centre of Portsmouth and I remember the columns of smoke and...
One was a girl called Pat Weeks, who lived next door to me in Bristol, and a boy called Dennis Stokes, who...
There was widespread interest in airplanes particularly as a Polish squadron of Spitfires was stationed at...
Then came the shower of incendiary bombs, the explosion of bombs moved in the direction of Plymstock. We...
We left from a London station and before we left, my mum said to me, ‘Make sure you look after your...
England was at war with Germany and so after my nineteenth birthday, I was conscripted into the A.T.S. A...
Uncle Robert was in the Navy on a cruiser and Uncle Len was a wireless operator with 12 Squadron....
I well remember one night in early 1941 when the oil tanks in a suburb of Plymouth were bombed, we were...
In about 1943 or early 1944 I recall walking around Torquay harbour with a girl friend in the afternoon...
Needless to say it became terribly crowded when my sisiters came home, added to that we also two others...
But my sister and I boarded a Steam train and after what seemed like hours and hours we reached our...
Most nights during the 1942 Baedeker Raids we went out of Exeter to my sister Renee's in the...
I went home and understood that I would have to go and live with my aunt in Okehampton because it was too...
Immediately following the outbreak of war and heeding government advice my mother self-evacuated my sister...
On this trip in and out, often we travelled in a Vickers Valencia plane, a Vickers Valencia plane was a...
Tom says the Canadians from the Prince Albert and Prince David were all in their kilts which was something...
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