Stories categorised in 'Kent'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Being evacuated was a real eye-opener for all of us snotty-nosed, sharp and inquisitive London kids, the...
Radar secrets In December 1939, I was sworn in as Sergeant Wireless Instructor in the Royal Artillery. I...
L/cpl Cowell, followed by his sergeant, William Chick, headed towards the minefield. See a photograph of...
The house next to the school was occupied by General de Gaulle, his aide and a secretary - Irene Jennings....
When he was old enougth, he joined the Royal Marines and went to Lympstone for training.After,he was in...
In these days of Sten guns our Army talked of 'muskets'. We had extra drills, but these were mainly...
I took the Kent Scholarship examination and this enabled me to move to Clarendon House School, then...
By 1941 there was a severe shortage of men for home defence and this lack of manpower meant that girls were...
I inherited memorabilia and bits and pieces from those years, including a postcard view of a flying boat...
I went in the Land Army when I was 17 and was sent to Kent,. When I was first told where I...
During the dark days of the war I found myself in daily contact with the sleek grey brooding monsters of...
While I was in Trinidad at the end of my studies in 1944, I was approached by three female army officers...
This I agree to and it was arranged that my elder sister Alice Wilson came to Sheerness to help collect my...
The boils and blotches on my legs appeared to the medical staff to be suitable specimens for a research...
They sailed into all the harbours, where at Ramsgate they received an accolade of applause and cups of tea...
I joined the NAFFI in 1941 at Bridgnorth Open Air From there I was transferred to Atcham, Shrewsbury, and...
We made a warp and a weft of flat strips of steel and fixed them to the bottom angle iron with springs...
Equipment appeared like magic, hitherto long sought-after essentials were there for the asking, leather...
A comforting pint When the spray subsided, the crew of the lightship – all, I hoped – took to...
The staff at Dymchurch Library were very surprised when a fiction book entitled Spanish Heels by David...
I was given the job of orderly in the Officers’ Mess and was in charge of the tannoy and telephone...
In the late summer of 1944 I was at an Infantry Training Centre in Maidstone, Kent... We landed up on the...
My father came from a family of 11 children from Bermondsey 6 boys 5 girls and my uncle john was the third...
On the night of September 17th, 1940 our house was struck by the largest bomb yet to be dropped on the...
THE FOLLOWING IS A TRANSCRIPTION OF AN INTERVIEW GIVEN BY JOAN AND STAN JARVIS, FROM THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY IN...
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