North West Wales

From a Solicitor to a Soldier: From Rhyl to Malta

I met my second wife in Dumfries, where I was instructing Canadian officers coming over into operations....

Evacuee Nightmare

Mr. Lewis would come into the cellar and abuse me/expose himself. We ran away, but only after I went into...

Evacuee to Caernarvon

My parents came from Edge Hill, while my Gran lived in Caernarvon, so we went to live near Caernarvon...

A Young Boy During the War

The next day I remember picking up bits of burnt newspaper, and as you know when paper is burnt the ink...

Doreen's Evacuation

The rest of the family were seperated except for Mum, Dad, my brother, my sister, and myself... Dad stayed...

Evacuation

My brother, sister and I were bussed to Paddington station complete with our gas masks and cardboard suit...

Evacuation to Wales

In 1940 I remember being evacuated from Deptford Broadway with my sister Rene, who was approximate 6 months...

Glad to Return Home

When we arrived at Llandudno, my friend and I were "chosen" by a couple of middle age. Both my...

Rudolph Hess.

He used to live in Cambridge, being a librarian at Peterhouse College and also sang, as a tenor in the...

Bombing Grandma

I went to grammar school with London evacuees, and we had Liverpool people who had been bombed out staying...

Rhosneigr Drowning

When a Botha aircraft crash landed in the sea off RAF Valley on 28th August 1941, my father LAC Leslie Ford...

SS Ranger & the raising of the Thetis

My father,W.J.Thomas worked on the salvage ship,ss Ranger & the raising of the ill-fated Thetis must...

Llanuwchllyn Blitzed

Of course because they were in the country they didn't think about Natzi aeroplanes coming their way,...

Memories: Evacuated to Wrexham

I was evacuated to Wrexham and had a happy time there... My brother delivered coal and had a hard job...