Kent

A Child's War: Coloured Glass and Shrapnel

Every morning, after a night of bombs and explosions, we would emerge blinking from our underground shelter...

Doodlebugspotting in Kent - A Near Miss

The Tempest and Typhoon fighters were quite new and were the only aircraft able to catch the dreaded...

Step Change

In half an hour I was on the way to the next hut wth kit-bag, full uniform as well as the parcel,...

From Ironmongers to Europe

By getting these certificates you could get supplies from the wholesalers; there was one occasion when the...

My War at School and at Home

During a raid on Bromley on the 16/17th April 1941, I remember laying awake in my bunk and seeing the house...

Childhood War Memories: Crayford and Litherland

Shortly afterwards, my parents moved to Crayford in Kent and my paternal grandparents moved from Formby to...

Evacuated from Chatham

Although we hadn't actually declared War on Germany until the invaded Poland, people from France,...

My personal WW2 story: A Child in Sidcup

Little did they realize that Sidcup was part of what became known as ‘Bomb Alley’, - it was on...

Taken by Surprise

Do'nt you know there's a war on' was the by now,familiar cry.Well,something had to be done and...

Reminiscences of a Folkestone Schoolboy in Wartime

Sandbags started to be neatly piled around strategic buildings, such as the Town hall, which in those days...

Teenagers Memories of the War (Part 2)

It was my afternoon off, and Mum needed a few items from various shops, so I put Jill in her pram and...

BOMBING: Childhood Memories in London and Kent

We had just got going nicely when the orders came that any of us who had scholarships to secondary schools...

Wailing sirens over Welling

One night a bomber jettisoned its load of incendiary bombs over the immediate area — and next...

Kent (Fortress) Royal Engineers in Holland

He informed us our destination was to be Holland, specifically Rotterdam, to blow up the large oil...

My Story -HMS Kipling

The drafting Master at Arms called my name from the Southampton Ships Company and an Able Seaman from...

Rose Palmer's Story

Film stars like Vivien Leigh, Beatrice Lily, Kay Kendal, and Lily Palmer. When we were preparing for the...

Memories

I failed the 11+, but, in 1943 as a pupil at Camberwell Greencoat School the headmaster told my mother that...

Dolly's War Days

Before the war there was a free bus service from Birchington and Acol to RAF Manston and this was used by...

Mike's WW2 Related Poetry

These Poems were composed to summarise my thoughts, emotions and some of the more significant facts I...

Taking on a Man's Job

On becoming an officer I joined the 356 MT Coy RASC in BORDON, Hampshire as a Platoon Officer. A spell...

Women's Land Army

This was organised by the Kent Agricultural Committee and among the guests were Lord and Lady Woolton, Lord...

As Time Goes By: RNVR in Chatham

In consequence we took every opportunity to take shore leave when at liberty to go into Chatham Town to...

Memories of Serving with the A.T.S. during 1940.

Remember feeling great indignation when a female colleague, much older than I, was promoted to Lance...

Evacuation Horrors and Bomb on the Stairs in London by Betty Sutton

I lived with my parents and younger sister at 9, Montrose Place, near Halkin Street, Hyde Park Corner. Life...

Home & School on the Front Line:Childhood memories in Kent

In the summer of 1940 the ‘real’ war started with the fall of France followed by the Battle of...

Wartime Margate

There was quite a few children evacuated and when my dad came out of hosiptal and we had to move forward...