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Final Years -Part Three

The noise was tremendous; anti-aircraft guns blasting shells into the sky, the whistle of bombs then their...

A Soldier Goes to War Part 2

The army was beginning to sort itself out and within a short time I found myself back at my Brigade HQ,...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 7

9 THE SUMMARY OF JUDY'S STORY — opens with her early thoughts of when she first moved from her...

Evacuation and a London Childhood

We left on the Ford Motor Company Jetty, Dagenham on the River Thames. My brothers and I handed up at...

Memories of Cheltenham

Evacuees started arriving, as Cheltenham was considered a fairly safe area, and our school had to share its...

Air raids in Cheltenham

Smoke pots, used to create smoke to protect factories in Gloucester and Cheltenham from bombing, they being...

War in Cheltenham

Now she rode everywhere on a bicycle, father bought one for each of us, mine a little large to last, then...

Memories of a country boy: In Gloucestershire

My elder relatives have told me that the Germans were not allowed to roam freely or go into the nearest...

A Child's View of WW2 in Portsmouth and Cirencester

My Wifes Story At the begining of the war my wife Joan who was 2 and her brother Bill 4, cousins and...

Childhood In Wartime Yate

My father was a bricklayer, he worked for Rangers, which was a building firm in Yate and my mother worked...

Six Years in the Country

On 1st September 1939 I was evacuated from Albert Road School, Aston to Sandhurst near Gloucester, not...

Working for the Admiralty in Bath

When war broke out, Mum and her mother moved from Southhall, Middlesex, which used to be country and is now...

Delphine of the Dings War - From Pillar to Post

Following the first Air Raid, my Aunty Win and Uncle Bert had come to stay with us as Aunty was too nervous...

A Daylight Air-Raid in Filton, Glos.

On this particular Wednesday in September a squadron of 80 German bombers aimed at this factory, in Filton,...

Adventures of a Girl Lumberjack in the Land Army

I was in the Land Army for about a year and I decided as I loved trees, I would like to go...

Lost in World War Two: White Knuckles All Round

I joined the Red Cross as a messenger boy cycling between the local Police Station and our HQWe lived out...

A wartime childhood

My memories of the 2nd World War are rather different from those Granddad has told you about, as I...

Family Memories of War

I was lucky enough to go to London with Dad occasionally to visit the Mason family, even after the war...

... it never did me any harm :-)

I lived with my gran in Wilsons Road, Hammersmith and mum lived with aunt Aggy and Molly in Aspenlea Road,...

Wartime Memories: Pa's Army

He worked at the Gloster Aircraft Company in Hucclecote as a draughtsman, working on the Hawker Hurricane...

Wartime Schooling

I remember being there when the Bristol Aircraft Co suffered a daylight raid and hearing the explosions...

Child in a small village during the war years

Our village, besides having a main railway line to the south running through it, was surrounded by RAF...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 6: 133 Coy RASC South Littleton, Evesham, Gloucestershire, February - April 1941

Reg had landed on his feet again - or rather on his back, on a table, precisely, with nowt on, surrounded...

Childhood in War Time Fishponds, Bristol

My earliest memories were of coming out of the infant school by the park in Manor Road and the siren...

A Schoolgirl’s Memories of Evacuation

The day arrived when we were told which railway station to be at — Harwich, Dovercourt, Parkeston...

Child of the war story by Marionne

My mother took us away as evacuees again to Frampton Mansell in the Cotswolds — lovely country but...