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It was always thought by the men that we would be withdrawn back to India when we reached Monywa; but with...
The fishing port of Port-en Bessin was set as the dividing line between the Anglo-American armies and was...
I cannot remember how long my brother was at Alltwen, it was several months, but he eventually came to live...
From our unit at Capel, which was right on the cliffs about 100 feet up from the sea, we could see the...
The sausages manufactured at 'Dick Hills' butcher shop and other butcher shops, due to shortages -...
Nightmare We drove through a town that was already showing signs of a severe bombing, and straight onto the...
A bowl of water and a blanket were kept in there, so we could hang a wet blanket over the door in...
Because of the heavy bombing of London, Coventry etc. we were considered a high risk area and if a major...
Evacuation: South East England to South Wales 1939 - 1942 On the morning of Sunday 3 September 1939, I was...
'Oh, I see,' she says, 'My son in law, Bernard, is in the army... I've watched him standing...
On one occasion the body of a German airman was found without a parachute in the garden of a house in the...
Joan Holloway served in the Folkestone Report and Control centre, underneath the Town Hall where the...
There was a lot of troop activity in the bombed houses around the harbour, especially in Dover Street, and...
In London I went to school at Greycoats Girls School but not for long for then the bombing started again...
I worked at Aylesford paper mill and we used to cycle to work. By then there were only the three of us;...
My Mum and Dad and myself, and all of our neighbours were looking upwards and shouting and cheering for our...
My photographs of the bombing of a certain West Sussex town, however, made the deadline in a remarkable...
There were swarms of refugees crossing,we had to dive under the bridge for protection as the German planes...
We often used to team up for the cycle patrol, which extended eastward to meet up with the Folkestone Home...
Sandbags started to be neatly piled around strategic buildings, such as the Town Hall, which in those days...
Stints at the Odeon On leaving Bobby's I played six nights a week for the dancing in the Odeon...
Further memories of WW2 One evening after cinemas had opened again my husband and I went to the Regent to...
Most of us, were assigned to a trainee farm run by a Miss Smith and a profoundly deaf young girl called...
I passed out from Cranwell in February 1940 at the tender age of 16 and three months, and was posted to 56...
The 9th Super-heavy Battery R.A. was in the station yard somewhere near Hull where gun crews were engaged...
From the fire brigade dealing with German bombs and the Battle of Britain to the North Sea and then to the...
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