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But, Death Brings Hope’icon for Story with photo

My sister Joan and I would take breakfast up to these boys in bed, usually five or six of them, and my...

War Baby

The bombings: Lincolnshire had munitions factories and aerodromes. The county was regularly targeted by the...

I had an Unusual War

This was followed by my next move to Northcoates in Lincolnshire, a Beaufighter 236 squadron of coastal...

Short memories: A Child in Lincolnshire.

The next memory is from when I used to sleep with my Older sister who was sixteen or seventeen at the time...

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Lincoln - A Rest Year

Jack, who had not plugged in his intercom was checking his guns when Radcliffe, his mid upper gunner, came...

Cleethorpes As A Kid

Having reached the dry sand areas, Mother decided we could not walk back along the beach to Cleethorpes...

Expensive Presents 1943!

Our visits to Boston Spa stopped, Penny was hardly ever mentioned in our house... I played with my old toys...

Memories of Air Crashes in Lincolnshire

They drew the blackout curtains and we saw that a Hampden bomber had crashed into St Matthias church...

London to Grantham and Back Again

It was at this point in the war, Mother, brother and myself moved to Grantham in Lincolnshire to be next...

My Life as an Aircraft Dismantler

I was called up at the age of 20 in 1942 to work in an aircraft factory called AV Roe up at...

HMS Royal Arthur: Skegness

Skegness, bathed in wintry sunshine, looked good, smelled great that March morning 1941, the squalling...

Wartime Memories of Lt. Commander Norman Yates 1939-1945 Episode 5

In April, 1944 I was instructed to report to the sub commissioners of the London Trinity House at...

Ground Crew also Served

This was to be an Australian squadron until the concern of the Japanese moving down from New Guinea to...

Journey into the Unknown for 'Children's Dunkirk'.

On 1st September 1939 German troops moved rapidly over the border into Poland and the Second World War had...

Letters home to mum and dad: From RAF Skegness

We reached Skegness at 2pm and shouldering our kitbags, we marched about 2 miles to our various billets,...

Evacuation to Tasmania: Adventure and Romance

On 1st August 1940, I left Grimsby and travelled to Liverpool to begin my journey to Tasmania. I stayed...

The Police Auxilliary Messenger Service - The 'Pams'

Each of these posts were manned by Special Constables led by a Sergeant, and received merciless teasing...

How We Found Ourselves Members of the Elite Path Finder Force of Bomber Command

Before starting the briefing the C.O. anounced that the squadron was required to provide a crew for the...

Lucky One!

Each of shook hands with the King and got a "How do you do". On the Wellingtons the crew was...

Memories Told to Me By My Parents: In Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and North Africa

The story I remember of those times was: one summers evening she was on the last bus back to Leicester from...

A Physical Training Instructor in the RAF by Godfrey Roylance

It will come as no surprise to anyone from the Armed Forces that on another course a few months later, our...

From Schoolboy to soldier - Ken Joyce

There was nobody else in the office so I dashed to the front window and saw a German bomber at roof top...

Children's Land Army

Other children would be set to work picking potatoes up from the soil, these were spun out by a special...

Lincolnshire at War - A Collection of Memories

My brother and I made Christmas decorations from whatever was lying around - coloured paper, beads,...

George's Story

The local doctor's son had joined the RAF and left his 350 Norton in the garage... We put the Norton in...

A Child's War in Lincolnshire: Paratroopers and POW's

Her daughter Hilda had left home to become a teacher but visited often enough to marry Alec, a...

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