North East Wales

From Mold to St Valery, Egypt and Italy (Part Two)

Attempting to advance on Ferrara and the River Po, our division came up against a tough German paratrooper...

From Mold to St Valery, Egypt and Italy (Part One)

Major Charlton then told us that the Blackwatch of the 51st Highland Division unknown to us at the time had...

So you Want to be a Flier? An Air Gunner's Story, Part 2: Chapters 8 to 10

Later that day I met the rest, so emerged the team of Pilot Sgt Barney Magee, RAAF, Navigator F/O Happy...

Bosie's Blitz

Sal, Vin and Richard had no mum... Granddad, Vin, Sal, George, Terry and I, and mum all went to the house....

The War Through the Window of a Schoolboy

One unexploded bomb landed in Christionedd and the Army - with hundreds of villagers watching —...

Veronica Martin: Evacuated to North Wales

Mr. & Mrs. Williams soon became Uncle Ken and Auntie Mair. They had a baby girl, who was aged one, and...

Evacuation: Liverpool to Mold

However it started to get dangerous in Liverpool - enemy air attacks were frequent and as we lived near a...

The Drink that Saved My Life

When I walked out of the station at Putney, I was amazed to see not the usual gloom of the London blackout...

A Global Trek in WW2: POW in the Far East

Already an enthusiastic amateur radio builder, he trained as a wireless operator/air gunner at RAF Cranwell...

The ATS in the Desert: Part 2

Billie Roberts was my driving instructor on the drivers' training course in Cairo. We all five became...

An Evacuee in Chirk

Chirk is now much changed from that time, but the surrounding countryside is very pretty, and Sunday...

An Evacuee's Tale: From Kent to North Wales

We were at Leicester just over a week when the Germans decided to bomb Coventry and Leicester. Coming home...

Cuddington Hospital to Chirk N.Wales

I suppose that because Mitcham Junction Railway Station was less than a mile away we were in the target...

Memories Buried In Their Minds, For Ever and Ever.

Liverpool: Meols: Farndon- North Wales: Tripoli- Libya and Marsa Matruh- Egypt. Liverpool: Meols: Farndon-...

"We’ve Found You At Last"

Because I had a good school report the Matron, had arranged for me to deliver goods to the 14 cottages,...

Beryl Stevens (nee Knight)’ Wartime Memoirs (born 25th June 1926)

My Mum having lived through the First World War at the same age as me knew there would be many lives lost...

Cheers from the Engineers!

However, we did establish a very good repartee with the boys on the Army switchboards but were forbidden to...

Early years 1939-41

At that time, Broughton aerodrome had a small fighter training unit; when another day raider came over, the...

Evacuation

We went back to Liverpool just before the 8 day bombing of Liverpool, for those 8 days we spent from 6.00pm...

Evacuees in Acrefair

My mother was soon approached to receive another child from Liverpool, and it was Donald — known as...

A Bit Blown-up: A Soldier's Haircut

After completing his grades at secondary school in 1941, he enlisted for army service in Blairgowrie,...

'Watery Grave' of Heinkell 111 P-4

Because of our close proximity to Liverpool and Birkenhead, we are as the 'Crow Flies' only...

Memories of Life as Evacuees 1939-43

He was the gamekeeper and John was not very appy there so eventually went to live with a family of children...

World War Two Seen by a Child in Liverpool and Wrexham

Prior to 1939 my family moved from Liverpool to a small bungalow outside Wrexham....

Clutching for Dear Life: The Medical Core in the Middle East

I was lucky not to have any bad experiences of the food rationing like many did in Britain... My colleagues...

The Pacifist Service Unit (PSU)

So on Saturday morning early, I set off on my bicycle, riding through the Mersey Tunnel to The Friends...