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So, on this fateful Friday, we ‘Three Musketeers’ said a fond farewell to the Council Offices...
The bombing of London started on Saturday September 7th when 967 German and Italian fighters and bombers...
Mum gave Dad a last minute message, to get Gran and my Uncle George to leave their home in Clapham and use...
Had Churchill spent the wearily weeks of the V1 offensive, that lasted, those ground ramp launched from Cap...
Henry handed our money to Jemima, pleased not to be the subject of Tugger's wrath because they had so...
It was at Chelsea that I met for the first time Dennis Castle, who was to become a lifelong friend, amongst...
"He,s the little boy that Saunta Clause forgot And goodness knows he didn,t have a lot He wrote a note...
The C.O. held a full battalion parade and explained that the War Office had been most impressed with our...
A Wartime Childhood: 'Normal' life in Countesthorpe, Leicestershire - and London. In the playground...
Because then the builders representives and our committee got together, and a joint deputation was sent to...
By September 1938 a meeting in Munich, organised by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, along with...
Roughly a month after Henry and I had arrived at the Hackers' household, I blackened my already...
More huts had for some time been under construction at Hercies Road — not Nissens like ours but...
The place was crowded and many of the people who were in poor physical and mental condition had come from...
At the time, General Morgan was working on the plans for the D-Day invasion, so my work was extremely...
At the time, General Morgan was working on the plans for the D-Day invasion, so my work was extremely...
The Officer who was in charge of our football team was posted to Headquarters and ran the football team...
On arriving at Banbury Station in Oxfordshire in May 1940 we were split into boys and girls. They were...
We eventually got the call to get ready for bed, cleared up and did just that, after hanging up our prize...
There were some nuns, a Sister Grace and a Sister Ethel, who lived up one end of the court who used to...
Evacuation to Buckinghamshire The unhappiness of my sisters prompted a phone call home, and soon we were...
In the late afternoon we of the Auxiliary Fire Service, stationed at the London Fire Brigade Station at the...
Early chaos The drill-hall on Chenie Street was the home of the First Battalion Rangers, KRRC. Relatively...
The first house I lived in was in Princes Road, Teddington, but I lived throughout the war in a railway...
As the crow flies, Peckham isn't far from Kent, over which the Jerries used to come on their way to...
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